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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1946
Page
3
Belgrade reports Gen Draja Mihailovic rejected prosecution charges of war crimes by Chetnik guerrillas. He said he never ordered murders of civilians and criticized the interpretation of the unit code Z, while the trial covers treason and collaboration. The case centers on the Black Threes Flying Squads and Z used for reprisals.
A Dutch 8,000 ton steamer Meerkerk struck a mine at the Scheldt estuary entrance on Sunday. Ten Indonesian sailors and two Dutch seamen died after jumping overboard. The remaining crew of more than 80 and 17 passengers were saved and landed at Vlissingen.
Fred Rose the only Communist member of Canada's parliament is convicted of criminal conspiracy to transmit war secrets to Russia. The 38 year old former electrician faces a possible seven year sentence on each of four counts and a September trial for additional charges. The verdict ends a three week trial detailing Moscow directed espionage activity in the war years.
Senate Republicans criticized Secretary Wallace for seeking large increases in Census Bureau and Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce budgets. They questioned the value of a wide business census amid business dislocations and called expansion of the commerce bureau suspect. Wallace had asked 173.8 million for the new year. the House approved 146.4 million.
Robert C. Goodwin, director of the United States Employment Service, stated on Sunday that the nation has passed its peak of postwar unemployment and that conditions should improve from here. He noted the economy turning a corner as layoffs ease and hiring rises. Meanwhile Britain faces a jute shortage hampering carpet production.
A plan to unify the military quickly forms amid months of inter service wrangling. The Army favors a single cabinet head with civilian leaders for each branch. The Air Force would take on submarine hunting, reconnaissance, and shipping protection. The Navy seeks Marine Corps independence for base seizure and naval campaign roles.
Grain to feed animals may expand while other trades shrink if livestock ceilings rise and grain ceilings stay. A stalled flour milling sector causes bread shortages, hinging on bumper wheat yields and less wheat fed to animals. Morris Sayre of Corn Products Refining notes several firms shut or cutting back.
The board argued that unrestrained tax cuts risk inflation and later deflation, reducing government revenue and widening deficits. It proposed a ceiling on long term securities banks may hold against deposits and urged requiring banks to hold treasury bills as a secondary reserve to stabilize short term yields.
Delegates faced a slow start with Sunday largely a holiday as experts and deputies laid groundwork. If Molotov persists with curt statements, talks on Italy Hungary Romania Bulgaria and Finland risk stalling, leaving Russia versus United States and Britain at odds amid fragile hopes for peace.
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts outlined plans to end government wool purchases via an amendment to the wool stabilization bill ahead of Senate agriculture committee hearings. Irish livestock men press for higher fat stock prices for sale to England. A 1851 New Brunswick 20-cent stamp sold for 480 in London.
Warren Berg a 25 year old Detroit parachutist survived a midair collision at Adrian airport when a private plane piloted by Sterling Mead struck his parachute at about 1500 feet. Berg used an emergency chute to brake the dive and both men walked away with Berg nursing a possible ankle fracture and Mead minor head lacerations.
Washington June 16 An early test of Arthur Vandenbergs appeal comes Tuesday in the Michigan Republican primary though he is already assured renomination He serves in Paris as UN delegate and leads the Senate foreign relations panel Exploring whether Michigan voters favor internationalism versus isolation while two other incumbents face primaries in Maine and Massachusetts.
London investigators pursued the murder of Elizabeth MacLindon 40 whose body lay for a week in a Belgravia mansion prepared for Princess Catherine sister of the Greek king. A $1400 fur coat and mail reading Care His Majesty King of Greece were found among her belongings as Scotland Yard pressed the case.
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