United States Britain and France Draft Franco Ouster Declaration
The United States Great Britain and France nearly agree on a joint declaration demanding Generalissimo Franco be ousted from Spain and a caretaker government set up for an impartial election. The open letter would urge no direct interference and aim to avoid civil war while preparing for a democratic future.
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Washington
United States
Great Britain
France
Francisco Franco
State Department
Britain
London
Paris
Franco
Spain
Community of Nations
McMonigle Sentenced to Death in Chamberlain Slaying
Thomas H. McMonigle, 31, confessed killer of Thora Chamberlain last November, was sentenced to death in the lethal gas chamber at San Quentin by Superior Judge James L. Atteridge. Execution date to be set after state supreme court ruling. FBI announced recovery of Chamberlain’s wrist watch and ring, found hidden behind a light switch in McMonigle’s San Mateo home.
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Santa Cruz
Calif
Thomas H. McMonigle
Thora Chamberlain
San Quentin Prison
James L. Atteridge
State Supreme Court
Clinton P. Duffy
San Quentin
FE. J. Connelly
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Miss Chamberlain
McMonigle
Campbell, Calif
FBI
San Mateo
San Francisco
Dorothy Rose Jones
Charges Placed on Peacetime Basis
The War department announced that soldiers charged with murder or rape in the United States will be tried by civil authorities rather than military ones, except in special cases, effective Friday. Wartime provisions of other Articles of War remain in effect.
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Washington
United States
War Department
Pauley accused of spying or selling out over 1939 oil referendum
E. G. Starr, Los Angeles oilman, told senators that Edwin W. Pauley may have acted as a spy for major oil interests or switched to supporting Standard Oil during a 1939 California oil referendum. He tied the claim to the timing of a sale of Petrol assets to Standard Oil of California and testified amid Pauley’s Navy undersecretary nomination.
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Washington
E. G. Starr
Los Angeles
Edwin W. Pauley
California
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Pauley
Standard Oil Company of California
Universal Consolidated Oil Company
Navy
John A. Smith
Saltonstall
R - Mass
Starr
Standard
Signal Oil Company
Petrol Corporation
T. S. Petersen
Signal
Red Cross to Add 50 Highway First Aid Stations in Montana
The American Red Cross plans 50 additional highway first aid stations in Montana to supplement 28 existing sites. Stations will be marked by Red Cross signs and staffed by trained volunteers from courses. Funds from the ongoing campaign will cover setup costs as highway accidents rise. 105 people were killed on Montana roads in the first 11 months of 1945.
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Helena
American Red Cross
Montana
Red Cross
St. Louis
Russia to keep troops in Iran areas beyond March withdrawal
Moscow radio announced that starting March 2 Soviet troops will begin a partial withdrawal only from parts of eastern Iran as measures in the Tehran crisis proceed. Other Soviet forces will stay until the situation is cleared, excluding Azerbaijan province. United States and Britain prepare responses as the UN Security Council weighs the issue.
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London
Russia
Red Army
Iran
Moscow
Great Britain
United States
United Nations Security Council
Washington
Mezhed
Shahrud
Samnan
Azerbaijan
Ahmed Qavam Es Saltaneh
Foreign Office
White House
Truman
Man Found Guilty of Manslaughter in Colorado Trial
In Littleton Colorado a district court jury of 11 men and one woman found Joseph DesRosiers a 26 year old former Army sergeant from San Antonio Texas guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the October 18 shooting death of his wife Kathleen DesRosiers The verdict followed nearly 35 hours of deliberation over a 14 day trial and carries a sentence of one to eight years Judge Harold Davies did not indicate when he would sentence him and defense counsel did not seek a stay for appeal
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Littleton
Colo
Joseph DesRosiers
San Antonio
Texas
Katherine
DesRosiers
Harold Davies
Earl Hower
Davies
Hoover Backs Anderson for Food Czar Authority
Former President Hoover urged that Secretary Clinton P. Anderson be given full control over U.S. food to curb hunger abroad. He called for reducing bread use by at least 20 percent and eliminating waste while coordinating with a national famine effort tied to the Truman administration.
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Washington
U.P
Herbert Hoover
Clinton P. Anderson
Hoover
Anderson
Truman
General Committee
Agriculture Department
Mutiny In Indian Forces Signals Growing Turmoil
Reports from Bombay Calcutta and Karachi describe mutinies in India's navy and air force and fierce civilian street fighting. The unrest tests Gandhi's non violent strategy as rioters mix with mobs driven by hunger and loot amid droughts and disaster. Observers warn trouble may spread as anti British sentiment grows and some whisper anti American currents.
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Bombay
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi
all-India Congress
Calcutta
Karachi
Overseas Veterans Returning Home
Pfc. John H. Gianino of Butte is due in New York aboard the Hampden Sydney Victory after service in Europe. Other Montanans include Sgt. James G. Lehen of Billings and T Francis E. Sullivan of Anaconda aboard the Wooster Victory.
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John H. Gianino
Butte
New York
Associated Press
Wooster Victory
James G. Lehen
Billings
T . Francis E. Sullivan
Anaconda, and Corp
Richard E Anderson
Stanford
Alcoa Patriot
Samuel W. Pancich
Great Falls
Leonard J. McGuire
Corp
Robert T. Loving
Hamilton
Madawaska
Gordon G. Holsombeck
Corbin
Clyde W. Bower
Glendive
Benjamin M. McDonald
Chateau
General Squier
T . Lynn W Nees
Forsyth
William B Burns
Helena
George B Wickman
Missoula
Cloyd K Carlson
Wolf Point
Joan M. Daily
Miles City
Glen Starkweather
Warren H Buettner
Livingston
John A. Ebaugh, Jr
Malta
Frank Crammens
Custer
Grant Manganallo
Cut Bank
Bob G. Messman
Montana
England
Bessie Jenkins
Stourport-on-Severn
Worchestershire
Ruth G. Crowley
Brentwood
Essex
John R. Crowley
Bozeman
Fred G. Mitchell
Salisbury
Orean W. Mitchell
Pamela M. Stoner
Lawston
Cambridge
Alvin Stoner
U S Protests Attacks on Naval Planes
The Navy said American planes were twice chased from the Port Arthur Dairen area in Manchuria by Russian aircraft fire. It protested to Russia that one incident was a hostil e act and the other unjustifiable. The Russian reply claimed Port Arthur defense is Russian responsibility under a 1945 treaty, and stated that U S planes must not approach within 12 miles without permission. No reply had been received from the Soviet.
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Washington
Port Arthur Dairen
Manchuria
Russia
Dairen
Port Arthur
China
Navy Department
United States
Auto Workers Reject Terms in GM Strike Crisis
The C I O United Auto Workers rejected General Motors terms to end a 101 day strike involving 175000 GM production workers. The union urged a policy of pressure in related industries to push a rapid yet victorious settlement while keeping talks open for 10 a m Saturday. A separate Detroit dairy workers strike settled with 18 cent hourly raises for 1000 workers, and 2400 drivers joined a sympathy walkout. Philadelphia saw relative industrial calm as General Electric strikes paused.
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Associated Press
C. I. O. United Auto Workers
General Motors
General Motors Council
Detroit
Philadelphia
C. I. O. General Electric Com
Weather Outlook for Butte and Montana Divide
Mostly cloudy in Butte with intermittent light snows Saturday and Saturday evening. Cooler with highs around 38 in the Butte area. West of the divide expect cloudy skies with scattered showers or flurries. highs 40 to 50. East of the divide partial showers in the west, warmer start then cooling. winds pick up Saturday with highs 45 to 55.
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Butte
School of Mines
Montana
Divide
Butte Bus Driver Beaten Robbed by Neck Assailants
Police spread a dragnet for two men who boarded a city bus on South Montana and beat and robbed Joe Wills, 221 Watson, with a sap. Wills, treated at St James hospital for head injuries, said the robbery occurred about 11 10 as the bus stopped. $36 stolen.
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Butte
Montana
Joe Wills
Watson
Wills
St. James Hospital
Ernett Sullivan
South Montana
Sullivan
del Rodda
Alex Cuthill
Joe Mooney
Tom Nixon
Byrnes Rebuke of Russians over Manchuria Asset Removal
The State Department rejected Soviet claims that Russian forces could remove Japanese assets in Manchuria noting no Allied agreement covers such war booty. Secretary Byrnes had warned no power may dispose of industrial enterprises there before reparations talks. The United States seeks joint discussions with Allies on Japan's external assets and Manchuria.
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Washington
Byrnes
State Department
Russia
Manchuria
Mukden
Department
New York
United States
Japan
Cardinal charges Soviet Curzon line policy aims at destroying Catholicism
In Rome on March 1 Eugene Cardinal Tisserant told reporters that Soviet Curzon line policy seeks the destruction of Catholicism and that Ruthenian Catholics face deportation, imprisonment, forced labor, or death if they refuse to join the Russian Orthodox church. He claimed the Kremlin backs Alexei, Moscow patriarch, in pressuring Ruthenian Catholics to break with Rome.
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Rome
Eugene Cardinal Tisserant
Priday
Ruthenia
Ukraine
Poland
Moscow
Warsaw
Curzon
Russia
Cardinal Tisserant
Congregation For the Oriental Church
Alexei
Tisserant
Vatican
Japan opens foreign office school for diplomats
Foreign Office School in Tokyo opens with 39 candidates for future embassy posts. Premier Shidehara says the school trains young men to represent a peaceful Japan abroad as the nation eyes wider international ties.
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Tokyo
Japan
Kijuro Shidehara
Shidehara
Pioneer Virginia City Woman Dies at 79
Mrs. Amelia Trout 79 lifelong Virginia City resident dies after a weeklong illness. She is mother of Madison County Treasurer Maude Trout and S E Trout of Butte. She was one of Virginia City's first twins born in the territory and daughter of Henry S Gilbert and Margaret Gilbert. Services set for Sunday at 3:30 at St. church.
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Virginia City
Amelia Trout
Trout
Maude Trout
Madison County
S. E. Trout
California
Butte
Raper
St. Church
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