Last Day to Give Blood for Armed Forces
Mining city residents responded to the Blood for Freedom Car appeal with 97 volunteers yielding 78 pints between 11 and 5. The mobile unit aims for 125 donors on Friday in Butte, with no appointment needed. Rejection was about 20 percent, mainly from recent donors within eight weeks.
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Blood For Freedom
Raymond Osborn
West Silver
Marie Ward
East Front
Osborn
Red Cross Armed Forces
James Kitto
Volunta
Butte
Red Cross
J. D. Ford
Marie Waid
American Red Cross
Union Pacific Railroad
Lewistown to Be Site of 1953 IOOF Convention
The 75th diamond jubilee IOOF and Montana Assembly of Rebekah conventions closed with Lewistown chosen as the 1953 site. More than 200 delegates from across Montana and neighboring regions attended, with elections naming Thomas B. Martin Billings grand master and new officers in succession.
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Lewistown
Independent
Order of Odd Fellows
Montana
Assembly of Rebekah
Treasure State
Canada
Idaho
Wyoming
Dakotas
Odd Fellows and
Rebekah
Patriarchs
Thomas B. Martin
Billings
Grand Lodge
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Frank Hazelton
Paradise
Gordon Tyler
Big Sandy
Peter Vanderwood
Libby
W. H. Johns
Butte
E. O. Perkins
Bozeman
Thomas
Federal Attorney in Kansas Fired
Washington reports Attorney General McGranery removed Lester Luther, 63, U S district attorney for Kansas, at Topeka by presidential order. A special grand jury will review evidence Luther shared fees from a Toledo company paid to a federal employee in a Treasury tax matter. The named employee is Nicholas Lopeas, 35, of Washington, D C, who resigned from the Justice Department on May 9.
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Washington
McGranery
U. S
Kansas
Lester Luther
Topeka
Truman
Justice Department
Luther
Toledo, Ohio
Treasury Department
Nicholas Lopeas
Washington, D. C
Farmers to Escape 1953 Wheat Crop Restrictions
Secretary Brannan announced that due to a near record 1953 wheat crop and uncertain world conditions the United States will use an escape clause to lift federal production and marketing controls. Farmers may produce freely to keep large domestic reserves.
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Washington
Brannan
Department
U.S
Dulles Warns of Hamstrung Policy at Harvard
John Foster Dulles told Harvard graduates that Truman and top officials are hamstrung by procedures that let Soviet Communists strangle the United States. He warned peacetime habits delay action and kept policy from maturing, risking obsolescence and stifling national resolve.
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Cambridge
Mass
John Foster Dulles
Truman
Russia
Dulles
Harvard
State Department
Hew
Congress
Action on Voting Legislation Urged By Truman
President Truman urged Congress to pass special legislation to ensure military voters, nearly a million service members, can vote in the fall elections. He noted prior messages and pressed for laws to remove state obstacles as ballots approach.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Farm Animals Valued at $1 000 killed by Target Shooters
Silver Bow county agricultural agent Jim Monforton reports livestock losses from gunfire in the past week. A pure bred bull valued at $600 died near Silver Bow, two quarter horses at $175 each were killed in Brown's Gulch, and three lambs worth $15 each were slain east of the Country club.
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Jim Monforton
Silver Bow
Brown’s Gulch
Country Club
Taft Attacks Ike on Foreign and Domestic Policy
Senator Robert A. Taft, in a nationally televised feature, criticized Gen Dwight D Eisenhower on foreign and domestic policy and said the new deal wing of the Republican party cannot win the presidential election He named Gen George C Marshall as responsible for China's fall to the Communists and contrasted tax and farm proposals with Eisenhowers positions Taft urged a 15 percent tax cut in the second year and questioned Eisenhowers promise on reductions The program was prepared with principal participants present before airing on CBS and NBC
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New York
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
New Deal
Republican Party
Taft
George C. Marshall
China
Marshall
Army
Truman
Eisenhower
Europe
Gen
CBS
NBC
Abilene
Kan
Klan Leader Thomas L. Hamilton Among 24 Indicted
Whiteville North Carolina June 19 Thomas L Hamilton imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and 23 alleged Klansmen were indicted Thursday on terrorism charges linked to outbreaks in the Carolinas border area last year.
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Whiteville
N. C
Thomas L. Hamilton
Ku Klux Klan
Carolinas
Reds Switch Attacks to Eastern Line
North Korea fighting shifts as Chinese Red troops strike the eastern front near Kamsong and the Yalu border. U S Sabre jets report two Communist LA9s shot down and two damaged, while Allied forces counterattack and claim about 200 Chinese killed and higher overall Red casualties.
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Reds
Seoul
Manchurian
North Korea
Yalu River
Kamsong
U. S. Eighth Army
T-Bone Hill
Fifth Air Force
Moscow Denies Swedish Version of Downed Plane
Soviet Foreign Minister Vishinsky delivered a note to the Swedish ambassador denying Sweden’s account of a downed Swedish rescue plane. Stockholm reports say the plane was in international waters while Moscow says it was over Soviet territory and fired first. Aftonbladet notes missiles on Dagoe and Oesel bases amid spy trial revelations.
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Moscow
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Rolf Sohlman
Vishinsky
Stockholm
Sweden
Aftonbladet
Baltic
Dagoe
Oesel
Scandinavia
Russia
Montana Rancher Confesses In 1911 Bank Robbery
Charles S. Whitney a Glasgow Mont rancher confessed his part in the Cokeville State Bank robbery of September 1911, pleaded guilty before Judge Robert Christmas in Kemmerer Wyoming and was placed on probation after meeting with Governor Frank A. Barrett. Whitney said he has no incentive to continue a life of shame and will repay his debt to society.
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Montana
Wyoming
Kemmerer, Wyo
Glasgow, Mont
Charles S. Whitney
Frank S. Taylor
Robert Christmas
Christmas
Whitney
Cokeville State Bank
Cokeville
Here
Kemmerer
al Pence
Laramie
Wyo
Paul Hoffman
Glasgow
Mont
Thursiday
Frank A. Barrett
Cheyenne
Russia Presses China and Korea for Germ Warfare Evidence
At the United Nations Russia reportedly told Red China and North Korea to produce stronger proof to back charges that UN forces use germ warfare in Korea. Russian displeasure stems from lack of convincing evidence and may explain why Malik has avoided germ warfare references in the Security Council.
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Russia
China
United Nations
N. Y
Jacob A. Malik
Security Council
Pyongyang
President Truman Sees Tax Cut Pledge as Political Punch
President Truman challenged a 15 percent tax cut claim by Senator Taft and projected tax increases to cover the federal deficit. He noted Eisenhower’s balance of the budget and tax cut plan while praising the general’s views. The press event touched on steel strikes auto production and broader economic concerns.
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Washington
Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Taft
White House
Eisenhower
Luce urges deeper law conception for world leadership
Henry Luce editor of Time Life and Fortune told the American Bar association that America can lead the world out of the current crisis only with a stronger deeper view of law. He warned the crisis will deepen before it ends and urged a renewal of international justice and a rational order guiding U S foreign policy.
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Yellowstone Park
Wyo
America
Henry R. Luce
Time
Life
Fortune
American Bar Association
United Nations
Luce
Oswaldo Aranha
Brazil
U. S
Union Will Move Steel for Arms
The CIO United Steel workers ordered locals to cooperate with company officials to move defense grade steel to military users. David J. McDonald sent telegrams guiding passage of material through picket lines after receiving a government list of warehouses and mills storing needed steel. Murray declined to comment on Truman’s Taft-Hartley plan amid the 18 day strike. Independent Steelworkers near a contract with Weirton Steel, paying about 2.11 dollars an hour in May, higher than USW members. John L. Lewis offered 10 million dollars to strikers, hut Murray has not stated his stance.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
David J. McDonald
USW
Philip Murray
Truman
Independent Steelworkers
Weirton Steel Company
Weirton
W. Va
Steubenville
Ohio
Murray
John L. Lewis
Voting on Extending Controls Law Begins in House
The House started voting on a bill to extend wage price and rent controls for a year. It approved 169 to 102 to ease import restrictions on critical materials and 112 to 43 to curb imported goods when domestic production is limited by raw materials.
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Washington
House
International Materials Conference
IMC
Multer
D-N. Y
Russia
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Lucas
Texas
McConnell
Butte Weather Forecast Delivers Varied Friday Outlook
Partly cloudy Friday with isolated thundershowers and little temperature change. Frac ional readings include Friday minimum 39 and maximum 68, with differing values for Airport Mines and East of Divide regions. Clearing and cooler Friday night. THE TABLE notes 12 hour maximums and 18 hour minimums ending 5 30 p m Thursday.
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School of Mines
Divide
Associated Press
Jet Production Cut by Strike at GE Plant
Cincinnati dispatch reports a full strike halted GE's jet engine plant reducing output by half. About 10,000 workers walked out after 900 AFL machinists picketed. The union demands include a union shop a 10 percent wage rise and ending a work classification system. GE's plant supplies 47 percent of the Air Force jet engines per Defense officials.
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Cincinnati
General Electric Company
AFL
Com
General Electric
Air Force
Defense Department
Butte Man Fatally Injured in Nevada Truck Crash
Walter Raymond Ruona, 45, of Butte Montana, died from injuries after a pickup truck overturned 17 miles east of Winnemucca Nevada. Three others were injured including 16 year old Vernon Jones of Rupert Idaho who was in critical condition at a local hospital. The group, mostly railroad workers, had been riding together when the crash occurred last Tuesday.
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Winnemucca
Nev
Walter Raymond Ruona
Butte
Mont
Ruona
North Main
Vernon Jones
Rupert
Idaho
Koje Island Camp Cleared Without Incident
Notorious compound 62 on Koje Island was emptied with 7,000 North and South Korean civilians moved to smaller 500-man compounds. This marks another step in the 10 day old operation up and brings total POW transfers on the island to about unknown. About 80,000 prisoners remain on Koje Island.
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Koje Island
Korea
Koje
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Ike
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Long
D-La
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Iowa
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