Eastern Montana Crops in Critical Shape
Eastern Montana crops and cattle ranges facing drought stress are in critical shape, with central regions only modestly better. Wheat yields may be fair if rains arrive soon, while dryland areas east of the Continental Divide suffer from moisture shortages and slow growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Montana
Agricultural Economics and Weather Bureaus
Extension Service
Drouth
Continental Divide
Alfred R. Anderson
Allies Ask Reds for Accounting
On the second anniversary of the Korean war, the Allies pressed North Korea and the Red delegation at Panmunjom to account for prisoners not publicly named and to identify the locations of four unlocated POW camps. They also listed 69 additional UN personnel believed held and 1,812 probable prisoners. The talks lasted 29 minutes with another meeting requested for Thursday as the armistice process nears its first anniversary.
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Munsan
Nam Il
United Nations
Panmunjom
Boy Fatally Hurt by Milk Bottle in Mountain View
Five year old Lile Andreasen fetched the milk bottle on the porch. It slipped from his hands and shattered. He fell on the jagged glass, sustaining a deep abdominal gash. He died an hour after surgery.
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Mountain View
Calif
Lile Andreasen
Eisenhower urges end to all economic controls soon
Denver June 24 Gen Dwight D Eisenhower told a Louisiana delegation in an open press conference he would favor eliminating every artificial control unless an obvious necessity exists He said he has more faith in market forces than in bureaucratic controls and questioned wartime controls after Korea without a declared emergency He also spoke on party rules president nomination methods and his independence from political power.
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Denver
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Louisiana
Korea
Congress
Star Chamber
First Shipments of Steel Moved
Pittsburgh and Indiana Harbor moved the first defense steel since the 23 day nationwide strike. A batch bound for the U S Navy left Jones and Laughlin Steel in Pittsburgh. Nineteen tons from Inland Steel's Indiana Harbor plant to Columbus, Ohio, for jet engine production. Joint government plan, CIO United Steelworkers, and company unions arranged the shipments. Other firms may follow by week’s end.
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Pittsburgh
Indiana Harbor
Ind
U. S. Navy
Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation
Inland Steel
Columbus
Ohio
CIO
United Steelworkers
Bandits Attack Train Killing American Soldier in Korea
Korean authorities report bandits attacked a railway train near Pusan Tuesday, killing one American soldier and 45 others while capturing 80 presumed civilians. Two Americans were wounded as dynamite likely derailed the locomotive, with reports still sketchy.
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Pusan
Here
Taft Attacks Truman Policy and Eisenhower Rhetoric
In Hershey on June 24 Senator Robert A. Taft assailed the Truman administration as still favorable to Communism and criticized General Eisenhower for failing to condemn current foreign policy. He urged naming names including Truman Acheson Marshall and others responsible for the policy, signaling a sharp line in the Republican presidential contest.
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Hershey
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Taft
Acheson
Marshall
Eisenhower
Tru
Bids for School Repairs Studied
Butte public school district trustees studied bids for repairs and equipment for elementary schools, Butte high, and Cleveland school. The marathon session began Tuesday night with only $4 083 for elementary plumbing and $268 for Cleveland vocational plumbing funded. Budgets showed $75,779.19 elementary, $21,103.69 high school general funds plus $11,000 elementary and $2,000 high school equipment, with $11,000 and $6,000 reserved for emergency next year. Low bids averaged over 105000 for general elementary work, forcing trimming of about 41000 in elementary repairs and at least 8000 from high school plans.
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Butte Public Schools
Cleveland Vocational School
Butte High School
Cleveland School
J. G. Link
Butte Folk Embrace Go Western Theme for July Festivities
Butte residents will wear western attire today through July 12 as the Go Western campaign spreads across downtown Downtown Days sales events and window displays. Merchants and the Chamber of Commerce cooperate with the Fourth of July committee and South Side businessmen, sponsors of the annual rodeo. The four day rodeo runs July 9 through 12 at the new Civic Center.
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Butte
Merchants Committee
The
Chamber of Commerce
South Side
iCivic Center
Pentagon General Brink Dies by Self Inflicted Shot
Brig. Gen. Francis G. Brink a two war veteran and head of the American military mission to Indo China was found fatally shot in a Defense Department office in Washington. A small automatic pistol lay by his side and authorities said he apparently died by his own action after three chest wounds. Brink 58 had recently returned from Indo China for staff talks on U S aid and the Far East situation. The coroner held a verdict pending investigation but said it appeared to be self-inflicted.
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Washington
Francis G. Brink
U. S
Indo-China
Defense Department
Brink
Pentagon
Army
Walter Reed Hospital
Far East
District of Columbia
A. Magruder MacDonald
Aronson Speaks to Butte Crowd at Lloyds Cafe
Montana voters hear Sen Hugo Aronson advocate a businesslike government. The Galloping Swede, Montana Republican nominee hopeful, vows a more honest, sincere administration and to keep politics out of office. Local backer George Mungas hails Aronson’s work ethic and foreign-born roots as proof he fits Montana needs.
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Montana
Hugo Aronson
Glacier County
Aronson
Lloyd's Cafe
George Mungas
Philipsburg
Montana Stockgrowers Association
Mungas
University of
State of
Mr. Mungus
Senator Aronson
House
Senate
Cut Bank
Butte
Attempted assassination of Syngman Rhee in Korea
In Pusan on June 25, a would be assassin tried to shoot South Korean President Syngman Rhee during war anniversary ceremonies. Police tackled the man before he could fire, and he was taken to police headquarters. Rhee, 77, had just addressed 6,000 people and spoke of democracy while defending his martial law move. He also urged constitutional changes for direct presidential elections and commented on U S and Western interventions amid political tension with the assembly.
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Pusan
Korea
Syngman Rhee
Rhee
U. S
John Muccio
National Assembly
Congress
Assembly
United Nations
Lattimore Cleared of Feared Trip Behind Iron Curtain
FBI evidence suggests Far Eastern expert Owen Lattimore was falsely accused of planning a trip behind the Iron Curtain. The State Department barred his leaving the country on an unusual basis, pending the FBI final report and possible apology. Lattimore denies any such trip and awaits official word from Washington. The charge was linked to an informant with CIA ties and echoes past McCarthy era allegations.
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Washington
U.P
FBI
Owen Lattimore
State Department
Johns Hopkins University
Lattimore
Michael J. McDermott
Department
United Press
Washington Post
Central Intelligence Agency
House Approves Atomic Expansion Fund Plan
A House appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday approved a 1.45 billion dollar atomic expansion program aimed at making nuclear weapons available to all U S armed forces. The amount is less than half the 3.191 billion dollar supplemental request by the Atomic Energy Commission for the fiscal year starting July 1.
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Atomic Fund
Washington
House
U. S
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate Panel Approves West Germany NATO Move
Senate foreign relations committee backed an agreement to bring West Germany into the NATO alliance framework for defense against the Soviet threat. The panel added language requiring Congressional authorization for military actions, while extending reciprocal security guarantees to the European Defense Community joint army.
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Senate Group
West Germany
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hickenlooper
Iowa
United States
Congress
German Republic
NATO Organization
European Defense Community
EDS
NATO
Acheson
Europe
Britain
France
Germany
Russia
British Laborites Denounce Yalu Bombings
In London on June 24 labor MPs demanded a full dress debate in the House of Commons after the United States bombed Yalu river power plants in North Korea. Prime Minister Churchill defended the UN operation and pledged to inform Parliament as foreign ministers Eden and Acheson discussed alliance matters. Attlee and Bevan criticized the raid as a threat to world peace and potentially widening the war.
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London
Yalu River
North Korea
House of Commons
Churchill
U. S
Mark Clark
Clement Attlee
Aneurin Bevan
Emanuel Shinwell
Sydney Silverman
Manchuria
Red China
Bevan
Defense
Lord Alexander
Korea
Washington
Yalu
Acheson
Anthony Eden
Europe
Middle East
Attlee
Britain
Former Anaconda Athlete Injured in Highway Crash
James P. Elmose 22, a ranch operator near Three Forks, was seriously injured when his 1949 Chevrolet went off the Butte Whitehall highway near the Cactus Inn and overturned. He was taken to St. James hospital in Butte with brain concussion and forearm lacerations. X-rays planned. Elmose, a former Anaconda resident and longtime VFW basketball player, had visited his mother in Anaconda Tuesday afternoon before the crash.
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James P. Elmose
Three Forks
Butte-Whitehall
Elmose
St. James Hospital
Butte
Scott Ambulance
Whitehall
Anaconda
Andy Conradson
Chestnut Street
Townsend Hospital
VFW
Bids on Three Road Projects to Be Opened Thursday
HELENA June 24 Montana highway commission will open bids Thursday on three road projects in Teton and Toole counties. The Fairfield west road in Teton will get grade gravel oil and drain work on 5.183 miles by Sept 15 1953. A 75 foot and a 38 foot timber bridge on the same road are scheduled by May 31 1953. A 450 foot steel concrete bridge on the Shelby south road in Toole county is due by Oct 31 1953.
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Helena
Montana
Highway Commission
Teton
Toole
Fairfield West Road
Teton County
Shelby South
Toole County
Butte Weather Forecast for Wednesday and Tonight
Partly cloudy to cloudy Wednesday with occasional rain showers in the afternoon and warmer conditions. Expected high near 60, low around 39. Regions west and east of Divide show lingering clouds with scattered showers and cool temperatures, highs 55 to 70 varying by area.
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School of Mines
Divide
Allied Raids Hit Four Hydro Plants in Korea
Allied warplanes pounded four large hydroelectric plants along the Yalu river and its reservoirs Fusen and Changjin in northeastern Korea for a second straight day. Destruction was reported complete by pilots. no ground advances, while air clashes continued along the 155 mile frontline.
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Seoul
Korea
Asiatic
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Navy
Fusen
Changjin
Yalu River
Suiho Dam
Tokyo
Mark Clark
Air Force
Defense Department
Washington
North Korea
Manchuria
London
Labor Party
House of Commons
Churchill
Clark
Peiping
Pyongyang
Yovetich Charged With Grand Theft
Dan M. Yovetich 28 former Pacific Coast conference track star was arrested in Hollywood on a grand theft charge for about 7000 from American Express. A 1947 Montana captain previously convicted in 1948 of robbing a Wilmington market and a Long Beach liquor store received a one year sentence, later placed on probation. He will be held for Seattle authorities.
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Hollywood
U.P
Dan M. Yovetich
American Express Company
Yovetich
University of Montana
Seattle
Express Company
Wilmington
Long Beach
Underworld King Waxey Gordon Dies in Alcatraz
Irving F. Wexler alias Waxey Gordon, once a leading prohibition era figure, died at Alcatraz prison hospital in the afternoon. The warden reported the death at 5 p.m. PDT with no determined cause. Gordon, 63, recently moved from Attica to serve a 25 year narcotics sentence for trafficking.
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San Francisco
Irving F. Wexler
Waxey Gordon
Alcatraz
New York
Irving Wexler
Gordon
Attica State Prison
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Red
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All
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Dtexas
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Dean Acheson
Associated Press
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Broadus
T Cut Bank
Dillon
Drummond
Glasgow
Great Falls
Havre
T Helena
Kalispell
Lewistown
Livingston
Miles City
Missoula
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