Truman Links War Hysteria to Alien Laws
President Truman says hysteria follows every war and criticizes current spy hunts as part of that pattern. He urges reading the 1790s alien and sedition laws to see parallels, noting the era ended with no catastrophe. He also denies a report of Hoover resigning over FBI evidence usage.
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Washington
Truman
Mr. Truman
John Adams
Congress
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Clark
Hoover
Justice Department
Coplon Espionage Trial Admits Love Not Spying
Judith Coplon testified she never stole U.S. secrets and is innocent of espionage offenses. The Justice Department analyst described a romance with Soviet engineer Valentine Gubitchev and denied subversive activity as federal agents pursued alleged FBI secrets.
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Washington
Judith Coplon
United States
Russia
Miss Coplon
Justice Department
Valentine A. Gubitchev
United Nations
FBI
Gubitchev
Manhattan
New York
Archibald Palmer
Palmer
Montana Supreme Court delays Diversion club slot case ruling
The Montana Supreme Court refused to block district judge Horsky from restraining law officers in the Diversion club slot machine case. Justices noted May 23 writ had already loosened restraints, allowing seizures and arrests, while keeping open whether the club violated state law.
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Helena
Montana
Supreme Court
Arnold H. Olsen
Lewis and Clark County
Melvin Magnuson
R. E. Munger
High Court
A. J. Horsky
Olsen
Horsky
Munger
Milton D. Israel
George W. Padbury, Jr
Israel
Lilienthal Seeks FBI Check on Atomic Article
U S senator Lilienthal says an article in Nation's Business may breach security rules and will ask the FBI to review it. The June piece titled Is the A tomb Secure? questions A bomb stockpile and policy. He calls the article inaccurate and reckless and cites highly classified information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
David E. Lilienthal
FBI
William Bradford Huie
Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate
House Atomic Committee
Representative Price
Commission
J. Edgar Hoover
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Lawrence F
Planes Are Needed in War on Hoppers
Emergency appeal for private airplanes with poison spreading gear was made by Wyoming and Montana county agents. Ranchers rush to hire planes as about 26 aircraft are already spraying poisoned bran over 1.5 million acres in the hardest hit counties. Montana contacts include Rosebud Big Horn Custer Powder River Charfield Prairie Treasure Yellowstone and Stillwater counties.
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Sheridan
Wyo
Wyoming
Montana
Department of Agriculture
Rosebud
Big Horn
Custer
Powder River
Charfield
Prairie
Treasure
Yellowstone
Stillwater
Chile Faces Crisis from Copper Price Decline
Chilean cabinet held two emergency sessions to discuss the fall in copper prices. President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla summoned the U S ambassador to discuss the problem. Two major copper mines owned by Anaconda Mining cut operations by 30 percent. Edits criticized a U S Congress proposal to restore a 2 cent a pound tax on foreign copper.
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Santiago
Chile
Gabriel Gonzalez Vadela
U. S
Claude Bowers
Anaconda Mining Company
United States
Congress
Peru
Mexico
Latin America
Big 4 Fail to Reach Berlin or Austrian Accord
Butte Negro Stabbed to Death and a second suspect held after 75 year old William Merritt died at his home from 14 stab wounds. Robert Davis, 22, admitted escaping a Dixon hospital and is jailed in connection with the case. Coroner cites internal hemorrhages from multiple stab wounds.
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East Curtis
Robert Davis
State Hospital
Dixon
Ill
R. E. Sayatovic
Merritt
Frank Sullivan
Davis
Duggan
Jones Gunn
Curtis
Gunn
William Jackson
Frank Yamer
Silver City Club
South Main
Yamer
Merrill Mortuary
Jackson
Sayatovic
George Perry
Mer
Russians Say Traffic Ban Mistake
Berlin reports that Soviet forces halted allied motor traffic for four hours at a checkpoint on the Berlin superhighway amid fears of renewed blockade. The action was later described by Col Boris Kalinin as a mistake, with German and eastbound traffic allowed to pass as usual.
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Berlin
U.P
Dean Acheson
Big Four Foreign Ministers
Paris
J. T. Duke
West Berlin
James Riddleberger
Germany
Acheson
Boris Kalinin
Kalinin
Helmstedt
Girls State Opens in Billings With 176 Delegates
One hundred seventy six Montana high school juniors will register at Rocky Mountain college for a week long Girls State run by the American Legion auxiliary. Delegates will form mythical city county and state governments using real election procedures.
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Billings
Montana
Rocky Mountain College
American Legion Auxiliary
G. E. Chambers
Cut Bank
Custer Battlefield
Hugh Adair
Montana Supreme Court
Legislative Assembly
John W. Bonner
Chambers
William D. Copeland
Carl Samark
Glendive
The
Legion Auxiliary
Wadleigh Admits Turning Over Secrets to Reds
Former State department economist Henry Julian Wadleigh testified as a government witness in the Alger Hiss perjury case admitting he handed secret trade agreements documents to a Soviet espionage ring beginning in 1936 and continuing until mid 1939. He named David Carpenter and later Whitaker Chambers as recipients.
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New York
U.P
Henry Julian Wadleigh
State Department
Whitaker Chambers
Chamber
Wadleigh
Alger Hiss
Chambers
Hiss
David Carpenter
United States
Thomas F. Murphy
Heavy Wet Snow Falls in Butte
Heavy wet snow fell in Butte early Friday morning and began melting on contact. At the airport weather station the temperature was 34 degrees around 1 AM. Thursday night saw light wet snow as the mercury dropped from 63 to 38 degrees. Forecasters expect a cloudy to partly cloudy day with scattered showers and a high near 65 degrees.
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School of Mines
Weather Bureau
Army to Buy Beef From Argentina and South America
The Army announced it would purchase $4,382,000 worth of beef and other meat in Argentina and other South American sources to feed troops overseas, claiming an estimated saving of $3,837,000 compared with the cost of the same amount bought elsewhere.
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Washington
Argentina
South America
United States
Labor Measure Adopts Taft Hartley Traits In Senate
The Senate attached a non Communist oath for union and company leaders to the Truman labor bill changing the measure toward Taft Hartley. Debates over handling national emergency strikes highlight the ongoing struggle to shape labor policy amid divisions over injunctions and government seizure powers.
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Washington
Senate
Ives
R-N. Y
Congress
Truman
House
National Labor Relations Board
Waitkus shooting suspect to undergo mental examination
Ruth Steinhagen, 19, was ordered held for a mental examination after being arraigned on charges of attempting to kill Eddie Waitkus. Judge Hartigan set bond at 25,000 dollars and ordered a psychiatric evaluation to explain her motive. Waitkus remained in fair condition at Illinois Masonic Hospital.
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Chicago
Bobby Sox
Eddie Waitkus
Philadelphia Phillies
Illinois Masonic Hospital
Ruth Steinhagen
Waitkus
Edgewater Beach
Phillies
Matthew D. Hartigan
Felony Court
William Haines
Cook County Behavior Clinic
L. L. Braun
Chicago Cubs
U.P
William H. Haines
Aid to Foreign Nations Urged by Lie
United Nations Secretary-General Trygve Lie proposed a three point program to boost foreign investments in backward countries. Key points include tax relief, fair treatment for foreign investors, and earnings transfer guarantees. Plans were developed with UN agencies including the IMF and FAO. An FAO annex estimates four billion dollars yearly needed for four years to fund development plans.
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Lake Success
United Nations
Trvygve Lie
Lie
International Bank
International Monetary Fund
The
Food and Agricultural Organization
Truman
FASO
Truman Sees No Business Crisis At Midyear
President Truman said there is no current jobs or business crisis and his midyear economic report due in July will indicate if vigorous plans to boost the economy are being drafted. Dr. Edwin G. Nourse warned a continued downswing is possible and cautioned against overreliance on heavy military spending.
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Washington
Truman
Council of Economic Advisers
Edwin G. Nourse
Nourse
Hitler
Pentagon
Butte Weather Forecast Clouds With Cool Friday
Cloudy to partly cloudy in Butte with a cool Friday. Low around 35 and high near 65. School of Mines maximum 51 minimum 44. Airport maximum 63 minimum 40. Precipitation 0.04. West of Divide cloudy Friday with scattered showers and snow above 5,000 feet, cooler high 50 to 60. East of Divide cloudy Friday with occasional rain and snow above 5,000 feet, cooler high 45 to 55.
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School of Mines
Divide
Big Four fail to seal Berlin and Austria deals in midnight session
Paris dispatch reports the Big Four foreign ministers adjourned after a midnight session without an accord on Berlin or Austria. They plan to reconvene Sunday, with a Benelux meeting in Luxembourg for British and French ministers. A trade restart and land access to Berlin are hoped, but terms remain disputed.
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Paris
Berlin
Austria
Benelux
Luxembourg
Assault Charged After Gunplay
Walfred V. Suonpera, 41, charged with first degree assault in a case involving his divorced common law wife Emma Harju, 52. Harju and Suonpera sustained head wounds after a near 4 PM Wednesday incident in her East Granite flat. Suonpera, jailed, admitted using the alias Carlson and a pistol traced to a local shop.
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Walfred
Suonpera
Justice Court
Emma Harju
Sullivan
Carlson
Walfred Carlson
Woman's Mutilated Body Found Near Black Dahlia Spot
In Los Angeles on June 16, the mutilated body of 28 year old Louise Springer was found in a parked car near the site where Elizabeth Short, the Black Dahlia, was once discovered. Springer disappeared Monday night while her husband Laurence Springer was away. Neighbors reported the car had remained parked in a southwest Los Angeles neighborhood since Monday.
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Los Angeles
Elizabeth Short
Louise Springer
Laurence Springer
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