Peron puts army in full command of Argentina
President Juan D. Peron declared a state of siege and gave the army direct control to quell the unrest after Thursday’s naval air revolt. Simultaneously church authorities announced the release of priests jailed in the seven month conflict, including Rev. Sujan Rafael Fontanella.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peron
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juan D. Peron
Radio
Farroupilha
Porto Alegre
Brazil
Franklin Lucero
Damonte Taborda
Congress
Sujan Rafael Fontanella
Father Fontanella
Olivio Martina
Ignacio Riasol
Democrats Accuse Republicans of Hoarding Bombshells for Election Year
Sen. Cotton charged Democrats are storing up major measures for the 1956 session, while Sen. Johnson said no next session plans exist and Congress must finish before July 31. Cotton claimed aid to school construction and a military reserve bill are held back to force party splits over segregation. He said farm price supports and Taft Hartley revisions are kept hidden to explode next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sen
Cotton
Congress
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
New Hampshire
Sens
Fears Big Jump in School Taxes
The Montana Taxpayers Association warned of a possible large rise in 1955-56 property taxes unless school land leases for oil are resumed and bonus payments received. It cites factors like bond payments, county salaries, higher medical costs, Social Security, and 1955 school legislation as tax drivers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Montana Taxpayers Assn
Montana
Association
Asociation
YMCA Campaign Elevates Butte Youth Fund Drive
The Butte YMCA campaign reports 14414.50 raised to date from nine mine crews led by superintendent W R Miles Jr. and strategy chair J L Wilson. Top contributors include F W Strandberg from Anselmo, Mrs. George Byrne from Badger Mine, and E G Craine of Kelley Mine. The drive uses a friendly mining metaphor with names of local mines as team designations and a goal to invest in youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte Ymca
Advance
Butte
W. R. Miles Jr
J. L. Wilson
Mr. Miles
J. E. Corette Jr
Reno Sales
James A. Poore Jr
D. B. Kane
al Grimm
F. W. Strandberg
Anselmo
George Byrne
Badger
E. G. Craine
Kelley Mine
YMCA
Catherine Clark
Badger Mane
Drowning Tragedy Claims Gene McCollum at Lake Billings Bay
Gene McCollum a 17 year old Billings High School senior disappeared while swimming near a diving barge at Lake Elmo. Companions watched as he bobbed in and out of the water then vanished and rescue efforts followed with fellow swimmers diving in to aid him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billings
Lake Elmo
Gene McCollum
Billings High School
Susie Berger
Dick Whitmore
McCollum
Whitmore
Gene Crew- Shaw
Molotov Holds Spotlight in San Francisco
Soviet Foreign Minister V M Molotov drew attention in San Francisco during the U N anniversary session as world diplomats anticipated a Monday night signal from the Big Four on plans for the Geneva summit July 18. He arrived with a large staff and spoke briefly through an interpreter thanking San Francisco for greeting the city where the United Nations was founded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
V. M. Molotov
Russia
Geneva
Molotov
U. N
Hillsborough
United Nations
State Dulles
Harold Macmillan
Antoine Pinay
New York
Eisenhower
Dag Hammarskjold
Delegates Head to Montana Girls State From Butte and Whitehall
Butte High School and Whitehall High School send delegates to Montana Girls State a week at Rocky Mountain College in Billings. Participants include Sally Ann Ashley, Sally Elizabeth Harris, Carol Ann Stefanich, Colleen Bellanger, and Dora Lou Tidball. Sponsoring groups are American Legion Auxiliary and local civic clubs. the event runs until June 26.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte Girls Central
Whitehall High School
Montana Girls State
Rocky Mountain College
Billings
Butte High School
Sally Ann Ashley
A. A. Ashley
State
Sally Elizabeth Harris
J. C. Harris
Lowell
Carol Ann Stefanich
Martin Stefanich
Cherry
Girls Central
Colleen Bellanger
Joseph A. Bellanger
S. Jackson
Dora Lou Tidball
American Legion Auxiliary
Ralph Rand
American Legion Auxiliary Department
E. O. Orleman
Livingston
Glenn Green
Cut Bank
Faye Anderson
Frank Biery
Ronan
Harry Coster
F. A. Green
Lewistown
Roy Cox
Chinook
Social Order of Beauceaunt
Butte Women’s Club
Girls Club of
Silver Bow Post No. 1
Child's Tricycle Sells Fast in Weather Proof Want Ad
Weather defies you but want ads work fast. A reader advertises a CHILD'S TRICYCLE in excellent condition and requests contact by phone to arrange sale.
Missing Judge and Wife Feared Kidnapped in Florida
West Palm Beach reports say Circuit Judge C. E. Chillingworth and his wife Marjorie vanished from their oceanfront home. Rewards total 15 250. an intermediary waited by the phone with no word after 72 hours. Investigators lack motive and clues. family asks pastor Harry H. Waller to act as intermediary. FBI involvement denied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Palm Beach
Fla
C. E. Chillingworth
Marjorie
Harry H. Waller
First Methodist Church
FBI
Anaconda Copper Mining Company Renamed The Anaconda Company
The Anaconda Copper Mining Company becomes The Anaconda Company on its 60th anniversary to reflect diversification beyond copper. The change, approved May 18 by stockholders in Anaconda, does not affect shares, capitalization, or corporate rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Anaconda Company
Great Industrial Organization
Anaconda
Cornelius F. Kelley
Kelley
National Guard Honors Aronson in Helena Parade
Gov J Hugo Aronson returned from a Denver oil meeting to a Saturday schedule of office work and a National Guard parade. Acting Gov Fred L Robinson had held the reins in his absence. About 425 wheel and track vehicles moved down Last Chance Gulch in Helena for the armored parade with no dismounted troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
S. H. Mitchell
Montana National Guard
J. Hugo Aronson
Denver
Aronson
Fred L. Robinson
Montana
National Guard
Last Chance Gulch
Mitchell
Lone gunman robs Mount Auburn Bank in Iowa cash heist
A lone gunman held up Mount Auburn Savings Bank in Cedar Rapids area, tying cashier Robert W. Hadley with wire and escaping with 11700 dollars. The suspect, about 55, wore a dark suit and horn rim glasses and cited the world's troubles as motive. Mount Auburn is a small village about 30 miles northwest of Cedar Rapids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Mount Auburn
Robert W. Hadley
Hadley
Melrose girl escapes injury after tractor collision
A six year old Melrose girl was hurled into the path of her father's tractor on U S 91 north of Melrose after a car rear ended the tractor. The girl Sharon Barney escaped injury as the father Royal Barney swerved the tractor. The Mular car driven by Harry Mular Sr. and Lena Mular of Butte overturned in a borrow pit. both were hospitalized with head and chest pains.
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Melrose
U. S. 91
Butte
St. James
Harry Mular Sr
Lena
S. Main
Sharon Barney
Royal Barney
al Boehme
Forest Timberman
Sharon
Democrats Seek 200 Million Boost for Supersonic Jets
Democratic senators plan to add 200 million dollars to the Eisenhower defense program for supersonic jet fighters. The defense money bill before the Senate totals 31.84 billion dollars, with Republican support on the Appropriations Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Sen
Monroney
D-Okla
Symington
D-Mo
Air Force
Defense Department
Senate Appropriations Committee
U. S
Nathan F. Twining
Pentagon
Congress
Marine Corps
Army
Appropriations Committee
Sen. Chavez
D-Nm
Four Jets Crash Fifth Is Missing
The 44th Air Rescue Squadron at Lowry AFB says four of five Navy F9F fighters crashed during a training flight from Hensley Field Dallas to Buckley NAS Denver amid storms from Kansas to Colorado. One plane is missing. four pilots are reported safe. A search base is set at Garden City while CAP units and highway patrols are alerted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Lowry Air Force Base
Kansas
Colorado
Hensley Field
Dallas
Tex
Navy
Texas
Buckley Naval Air Station
Ness City
Kan
Weskan
Victoria
Bonny Reservoir
Garden City
Kaw
Civil Air Patrol
Checks Deposited in Mail Box Missoula Missing Cash
Missoula police report checks totaling 544.21 intended for bank deposit were deposited in a mail box by Linn Hanson. Fifteen dollars in cash accompanying the checks is missing. A postal worker found the checks. the cash has not been recovered. The Hansons recovered the checks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missoula
James J. Doyle
Linn Hanson
James L
Hansen
Doyle
Hansons
Five former U N soldiers leave China only two return home
Peiping announced five former U N soldiers were granted permission to leave Red China after the Korean War. Griggs Bell and Devriendt asked to go to the United States, Cowart chose Japan, and Verdyck selected Laos. Washington will review Devriendt’s US entry later, weighing asylum and Belgian quota factors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Red China
U. N
Red
China
Peiping
Japan
United States
Laos
Lewis E. Griggs
Jacksonville
Tex
Otho G. Bell
Olympia
Wash
William Cowart
Dalton
Roper Devriendt
Teperstratt
Belgium
Louis Verdyck
Antwerp
Griggs
Bell
Devriendt
Cowart
Verdyck
Washington
Experts Favor Continuing Salk Polio Vaccination Drive
New York polio specialists led by U S Surgeon General Scheele recommended extending mass Salk injections through the summer to curb rising cases. They argued the vaccine’s preventive value outweighs the small risk of inducing paralysis in some already infected individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U. S
Leonard Scheele
National Foundation For
Jonas Salk
Thomas B. Francis
University of Michigan
Salk
Washington
Malcolm Phelps
el Reno
Okla
American Academy of General Practice
Eisenhower
National Foundation
Montana Weather Outlook by Region
East region looks for cloudiness and showers with cooler air Sunday and Sunday night highs 60 to 65 in the northwest and 65 to 75 in the east and south Monday brings cloudy skies and more showers. West area expects partly cloudy days with scattered showers Monday afternoon and little temperature change highs 65 to 75 Sunday. The table shows maximums for 12 hours and minimums for 18 hours ending 5 30 p.m. Saturday.
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Montana
Speculation on China's release of three American prisoners
Washington reaction questions whether Peiping's move is propaganda or a political maneuver. Peiping Radio said three Americans and two Belgians who stayed with the Communists after Korea may leave. Rep. Richards and Sen. Case noted potential aims to influence U S opinions and Peiping’s image.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Red China
Peiping
Richards
D-Sc
Judd
R-Minn
Sen. Case
R-Sc
Peiping Radio
Japan
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Wartime Craft Sinks Off Caen Killing Dozens
A converted landing craft carrying 28 to 30 French tourists from Ouistreham to Riva Bella Point sank off Caen after grounding on a sandbar. At least 17 drowned as some victims fled into the sea, while others were trapped aboard as water rose.
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Caen
France
Paris
Ouistreham
Orne River
Riva Bella
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Billings Bay
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Anaconda Aluminum Company
Columbia Falls
International Smelting and Refining Company
Anaconda Wire and Cable Company
American Brass Company
Lone
Montana Weather
Eecceess
Belgrade
Yanks
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