Attlee Decries Eastern Totalitarianism in Yorkshire Speech
Prime Minister Attlee denounces denials of human rights in eastern Europe and warns against single list elections as he outlines Britain’s role in rebuilding Europe with Marshall Plan aid. Bevin echoed concerns as Kremlin word on joining talks with Britain and France awaits.
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Attlee
Stalin
Yorkshire
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Britain
Ernest Bevin
House of Commons
Kremlin
Marshall
Missouri River Floods Threaten Midwest Towns and Crops
The Missouri river surged toward flood stage as torrential rains hit the Midwest. Ottumwa Iowa faced third flooding in two weeks while levees near Miami Missouri failed inundating crops. The Des Moines and Raccoon rivers poised to rise further with 100000 acres of Iowa corn land lost.
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Missouri
Ottumwa
Iowa
Miami
Red Cross
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Raccoon
Weather Bureau
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Mississippi
Hot Springs
S. D
MacArthur Approves Japanese Antarctic Whaling Expedition
Tokyo reports General MacArthur authorized a new Japanese whaling expedition to the Antarctic on Sunday. The move expands Japan's whaling program as officials in Tokyo confirm approval and outline plans for the voyage.
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Antarctic
Douglas MacArthur
Soviet Interest in Marshall Plan Welcomed by U S Officials
Washington officials welcomed Soviet Russia’s interest in the Marshall plan for European reconstruction but said the United States cannot provide data on loan credit or grant terms. Tass, the Soviet news agency, raised questions on economic aspects. The State Department noted that any overall recovery plan must be drawn by Europeans, then reviewed by the U.S. if aid is possible. The projected cost through 1951 was estimated at 23 billion dollars.
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U.P
Russia
United States
Tass
State Department
Training Bill Faces Delay Till Next Year
The House armed services committee signals a shift away from universal military training as it eyes terminal leave bonds. Hearings will likely resume next year with lawmakers noting the session’s end and potential election-year pressure. Some members favor postponement while others push for swift action.
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House Armed Services Committee
Special Commission
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Representative Arends
Illinois
Congress
Arends
Sterling Cole
R-N. Y
Great Falls Pilot Wounded in Sea Side Plane Crash
A private plane carrying three Coast Guardsmen crashed while attempting a forced landing on a crowded Sea Side beach. Pilot Elwood Darms of Great Falls Montana injured with a broken left ankle. Passenger Albert Eckersley of Pocatello Idaho suffered a broken right elbow. James H. Brick of Great Falls and others sustained abrasions. All treated at Seaside hospital.
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Astoria
Ore
U.P
Coast
Postal Rates Not Raised This Year in Dismissal of Plan
Washington reports that House Republican leaders said there will be no increase in postal rates this year. The three cent first class rate will stay, avoiding a return to prewar two cents on July 1, due to insufficient time before adjournment.
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Washington
House
East and West Gap in U N Growing Wider
United Nations delegates at Lake Success see little hope of closing the east-west gap before the London peace conference in November. A Russian western powers deadlock over peace-keeping machinery, atomic controls, and global policing signals the German settlement as the critical turning point. Some believe Marshall’s economic plan may influence Moscow, easing tensions if Russia participates. The scene is seen as a tug of war between US dollars and Soviet influence, with Greece and Turkey aided and extended to Iran.
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London
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Iran
Boss of Gamblers Shot and Killed
Beverly Hills authorities say they are stumped in the Siegel murder probe. Police Capt. White and Sgt. Alcorn report they have worked nearly a full day without progress and will resume Sunday. Benjamin Siegel, 40, head of West Coast gamblers and Hollywood figures, was ambushed.
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Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel
W. W. White
J. D. Alcorn
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Siegel
Hollywood
Test Home Masonry to Be Finished Tuesday in Butte Plan
The low cost four room test home in the Grand avenue addition will have its masonry completed Tuesday night and rough plumbing finished this week. The Butte Development Association reports five other home types will be drafted this week. FHA extends 25 year loans with four and a half percent interest for rental or owner occupied buildings, with ninety percent loan value insured. Plumbers and carpenters unions offer to assist, aiding prospective builders.
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Butte Development Association
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Petoimtey VR Lhe Association
Grand Avenue
The
Development Association
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
Plumbers’ and Carpenters’ Unions
Plumbers Union
Butte Hosts Large Montana VFW Convention
Montana overseas veterans gather in Butte for the state VFW convention expected to bring over 1,000 delegates. Registration starts Wednesday at the Finlen hotel, with sessions through Saturday led by national officers Father Gerald M. Dougherty and Mrs. Sally Cannon.
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Butte
The
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Finlen Hotel
Gerald M. Dougherty
Chicago
Sally Cannon
Youngstown
Ohio
John Tomchek
Helena
Curtis Beede
Glasgow
Ella Johnson
Great Falls
State Ladies Auxiliary
John W. Bonner
South
Arizona Street
Miners’ Union
Butte High School
Riots Kill Sixteen as Punjab Legislate for Partition
New Delhi report says rioting mobs killed at least 16 people and burned Lahore as Punjab lawmakers gathered to vote on partition. The two day toll reaches 71 amid clashes near Lucknow and in the united provinces. Leaders of Moslem league Sikh and Congress met ahead of the assembly session to consider dividing the province into Hindustan and Pakistan.
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Lahore
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Partition
Lucknow
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India
Congress
Hindustan
Pakistan
Ordination Rites Slated Today by Montana Conference
The Montana Methodist conference holds its concluding day at Mountain View church with ordination of deacons Robert Ferguson and Richard Ludden of Steubenville Ohio and Emily Treloar of Kalispell, and elders Ellen Rose of Superior Clyde Park’s Daniel McDowell Clarence Spellman Stevensville Hugh Herbert of Fort Benton. Bishop Wilbur E Hammaker presides as services begin at 3 30 pm after a 8 45 am love feast and 10 45 am divine worship.
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Butte
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Tom
Butte Weather Forecast and Montana Regional Outlook
Partly cloudy in Butte with warmer conditions and a high near 68 over the next 24 hours. School of Mines reported 58/40 highs and lows, Airport 58/41, with trace precipitation. West of divide fair Sunday. highs 65 to 75. East of divide fair northwest, partly cloudy to cloudy east and southeast. highs 70 to 60.
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Butte
School of Mines
Montana
Divide
Business Group Re-elects Helena Woman
Rhoda Kennel of Helena was re elected president of the Montana Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs for the coming year. Fern Questad of Livingston was named recording secretary and Jerry Caswell of Kalispell appointed corresponding secretary. Other officers were re elected: Marie Leslie of Helena first vice president Elnora Young of Great Falls second vice president and Georgenia Simkey of Glendive treasurer. Lillian T. Majally national field director addressed the silver jubilee dinner at the Finlen hotel urging Americans to shape tomorrow and noting cycles of economic change.
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Montana Federation of Business and Professional Women
Pearl Schroeder
Butte
Lillian Majally
New York
Rhoda Kennel
Kalispell
Freda Trethewey
Solvay Andresen
Missoula
Georgenia Sim
Helena
Montana Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
Finlen Hotel
Fern Questad
Livingston
Jerry Caswell
Freda Tretheway
Great Falls
Georgenia Simkey
Glendive
Lillian T. Majally
Miss Majally
Berserk Indian Wounds Woman in Billings Park Shooting
A 25 year old Broadview woman Mrs Edward Vansky was shot and seriously wounded by an allegedly berserk Sioux in South Park Billings on Saturday. Police Capt Gerald B Smith named Hobart Sleeps 18 and Peter Fills the Pipe 34 as detained suspects both described as intoxicated. An Indian woman witness could not speak English and an interpreter was sought to clarify events.
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Sleeps
Smith
G O P Backers Predict Veto Override On Taft Hartley Bill
Republicans won a Senate vote agreement to overturn President Truman's veto of the Taft Hartley labor bill. They predicted a two thirds margin with several votes to spare and prepared to reset debate for Monday. Hartley blasted Truman's arguments as false while Wagner and Thomas were unavailable for the Monday vote.
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Senate
Truman
M.S. T
Hartley
R-N. J
Taft
Ohio
St. Louis
Wagner
New York
Elebert Thomas
Utah
Geneva
International Trade Organization
Thomas Taft
Four Missing After Truck Plunges Into Clark Fork River
Swift current hindered searchers for four people believed drowned when a car plunged 150 feet into the Clark Fork near the Montana Idaho border. Wrecking crews planned to pull the vehicle using a grappling hook as authorities probed the 50 foot deep river for Harold White, Henry Gable, Elsie Silva, and a Walsh residence occupant.
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Superior
Swift Current
Clark Fork
Columbia River
Montana- Idaho
Mineral County
Mountain
Joe Young
Harold White
Walla Walla, Walsh
Henry Gable
Smelterville
Idaho
Elsie Silva
Denver
Alberton
Mont
Missoula
White
White Cab Company
Walla Walla
Francis Tamietti
Hungary Accuses Nagy Ties to U S Base Plot
A Hungarian white paper charges former Premier Ferenc Nagy with using connections with prominent Americans to make Hungary a southeastern European economic and political base for the United States. It cites figures such as H. P. Arthur Schoenfeld and Laszlo Eker-Racz, plus Dean Acheson and Sol Bloom, and notes Nagy’s double policy of covert action against Communists while professing friendship with the West.
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Ferenc Nagy
Hungary
United States
Nagy
H. P. Arthur Schoenfeld
Switzerland
Schoenfeld
Laszlo Eker-Racz
Legation
Dean Acheson
Sol Bloom
D-N. Y
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Russia
Starving Americans Receiving Food From European Area
The New York Times reports a secret flow of thousands of food parcels from the Mediterranean to the United States over months. Customs authorities say shipments appear aimed at allegedly starving American relatives and friends, mostly from Greece, amid an inquiry into illegal meat imports.
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The
New York Times
Mediterranean
United States
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Greece
Grass Fires Sweep California Valleys Across State
Grass fires burned across northern and central California on Saturday destroying more than 35 farm homes and 200 empty Army camp buildings. Nine firefighters were injured as over 30 000 acres of grain and forest land burned with losses exceeding 300 000 dollars. San Francisco and Oakland reported numerous small fires. Camp Kohler near Sacramento lost 200 empty buildings and 35 farm homes.
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Calif
California
San Francisco
Oakland
Camp Kohler
Army Signal Corps Training Depot
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