Prospects for GOP Convention Deadlock Rise in New Hampshire
In Manchester NH on March 12 AP reports rising prospects of a GOP convention deadlock after New Hampshire primary results. Eisenhower leads Taft in the Republican race with 46 497 to 35 820 and Kefauver tops Truman in the Democratic tally 20 147 to 16 298. Delegates awarded favor Eisenhower and Kefauver with potential shifts by convention time.
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Manchester
N. H
New Hampshire
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ike
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Eisenhower
Taft
Kefauver
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Stassen
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
Republicans See New Hampshire Victory Challenge to Truman
The Associated Press reports Republican leaders hailed Truman's New Hampshire loss as a repudiation of Trumanism and a sign for GOP gains in November. Estes Kefauver credited his win over Truman to Democratic voters seeking new ideas and aggressive action, while Truman offered no comment. Eisenhower defeated Taft by a wide margin, 46,497 to 35,820, as Taft faced the party star.
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Truman
New Hampshire
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Taft
Harold
Montana Railroad Commission Grants 6 Percent Freight Increase
The Montana railroad commission authorized a six percent rise in intrastate freight rates for all railroads and truckers in the state. It aligns Montana rates with Interstate Commerce Commission levels as costs for materials, fuel, and labor rose. The panel cited higher operating costs and traffic declines as reasons, noting many carriers' ratios exceed 100. The orders, signed by Chair Paul T. Smith and Commissioners Leonard C. Young and Austin B. Middleton, aim for fair returns on investments.
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Helena
Montana
Railroad Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Paul T. Smith
Leonard C. Young
Austin B. Middleton
Secretary General of NATO Chosen
Lord Ismay a longtime Churchill adviser was named secretary general of NATO after several top diplomats declined the post. The 64 year old general will handle political and economic coordination from Paris starting next month while General Eisenhower keeps command of the military side.
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London
Lord Ismay
Churchill
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
Eisenhower
Paris
Truman Faces Senate Fight Over Tax Reform Plan
President Truman opened Senate debate on his proposal to reorganize the tax system amid bitter attacks. Senator George of Georgia led the critic, while some Republicans joined in support. Truman, from Key West, urged Monroney for a vote, warning a defeat would hinder civil service reforms and elevate the IRS.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
George
D-Ga
Georgia
Key West
Fla
Monroney
D-Okla
Internal Revenue Bureau
Car Prowled in Butte Loss Set at $1000
Spokane salesman J. F. Boesche reported car burglary in Butte after thieves smashed a window on Arizona street near Park and Broadway. About $1000 in samples vanished including $300 worth of gloves, $150 belts and $100 handkerchief samples plus other items like flowers towels T shirts stockings draperies and a suitcase. Boesche represents Rice Stix of St. Louis and expected a shorter stay in Butte.
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Spokane
Butte
J. F. Boesche
Boesche
Arizona Street
Park and Broadway
Rice- Stix Company
St. Louis
Balky Strikers Vote to Return to Jobs
Railroad strikers in Elkhart Indiana voted 136 to 72 to end a walkout on the New York Central, clearing the road of the last obstacle to normal service. Toledo crews also ended a 24 hour holdout by 220 to 214, and a through Toledo run began as regular crews took over. The strike is described as over with commitments of no disciplinary action in writing for participating workers.
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Cleveland
Elkhart
Ind
New York Central
Toledo
Ohio
Elkhart Yards
Scott Spencer
Spencer
Pacemaker
Chicago
New York
Nyc
J. H. Spooner
Railroad
James J. Frawley
Toledo and Elkhart
More Donors Are Needed to Meet Blood Quota
Butte seeks 75 to 100 additional blood donors to reach a 300 pint quota for armed forces. Lt Comdr L J Hubble announced the Red Cross mobile unit will collect blood Thursday at the Masonic temple ballroom from 11 to 4. Calls for appointments to donate: 9291 or 5233. A staff of over 40 volunteers will assist a 60 unit capacity drive aiding Korea wounded.
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Butte
L. J. Hubble
Blood Program
American Red Cross
Masonic Temple
Korea
Aronson Bids for Montana Governor Nomination
J Hugo Aronson state senator from Glacier county since 1944 announces bid for Republican nomination for governor. A Swedish immigrant who arrived in 1911 and lived in Montana since 1913, he built the oil industry towns in Kevin Sunburst and Pondera fields and earned the nickname The Galloping Swede.
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CUT Bank
J. Hugo Aronson
Glacier County
Aronson
Sweden
Theu. S
Montana
Elk Basin
Wyoming
Kevin- Sunburst
Oilmont
Pondera
Conrad
UN Demands Bona Fide Prisoner List At Panmunjom Talks
At Panmunjom the UN demanded a complete and bona fide prisoner list from the Communists as a prerequisite to any exchange deal. Libby pressed for full accounting of 50 000 missing Allied POWs while the Reds cited 11 559 listed prisoners. Talks, mild in tone, to resume Friday after a 118 minute session on exchange and truce supervision.
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Munsan
Korea
Adm
R. E. Libby
Panmunjom
Red Stockades
Libby
Lee Sang Cho
Lee
Heavy Red Attack Stopped Cold by Allied Troops
North Korean battalion backed by artillery and mortars attacked along a two and a half mile front but the U S 25th division halted the assault. The heaviest Communist attack in a month, 750 Reds were stopped 100 yards from Allied lines as U S and United Nations forces reported brisk fighting across the front. Far East air power claimed 4 MIGs down and 1 probable destroyed as jets logged 1 005 sorties.
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Seoul
No-Man’s-Land
Mundung
United Nations
Heartbreak Ridge
Eighth Army
U. S
Far East Air Force
U. S. 40Th Infantry Division
Kumsong
Yonchon
Korea
Billings Youth Dies After Hardin g way Auto Crash
Robert Zebley 21, a Korean War veteran from Billings, died in a Butte hospital after his 1940 Ford plunged from a hillside along U S Highway 10 near Hardingway. He was discharged recently from the Navy after four years service aboard the USS Cacapon. Zebley had lived in Forsyth and was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Zebley. He died from brain injuries and exposure. Coroner Sagatovic noted no inquest. the body will be sent to Billings for funeral services.
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Billings
Butte
Hardingway
Robert Zebley
Roscoe Zebley
Alderson
R. E. Sagatovic
Montana
Young Zebley
Navy
San Francisco
al Boehme
Zebley
Sayatovic
Sagatovic
Deep Gorge
Donald C. Bowman
Whitehall
St. James Hospital
Forsyth
United Nations
Robert Binkley
James Ogle
Spokane
Duggan
Merrill Mortuary
Russia Has 85 Plane Factories
Washington March 12 AP Russia has about 85 aircraft factories and more than 28 engine plants and probably produced 22000 airplanes half of them fighters last year Aviation Age said. It notes plants spread from Smolensk and Kiev to Kamchatka with three large sites in the west and one at Tiflis near the Turkish border.
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Washington
Russia
Aviation Age
Smolensk
Kiev
Kamchatka Peninsula
Japan
Gorki
Moscow
Tiflis
Strakovsk
Tratyaka
Repinsk
Tempi
American Geographic Society
National Geographic Society
Ministry For Aircraft Industry
Red Air Force
Butte Weather Predominantly Cloudy With Minor Temps Change
Partly cloudy weather with little temperature change. Forecast includes a Thursday low near 5 and high around 30. Airport readings show a Tuesday midnight to Wednesday 5:30 pm low of -1 and high of 31, with School of Mines at - 7 to 32. Montana west of divide expects occasional light snow Thursday and highs between 25 and 35.
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School of Mines
Montana
Divide
Billings
Belgrade
al Broadus
W. Butte
Cut Bank
Dillon
Drummond
Glasgow
Great Falls
Havre
Tr. Helena
Sauces
Kalispell
Lewistown
Livingston
Miles City
Missoula
Superior
W. Yellowstone
Wr. Whitehall
Governor Bonner Seeks Aid for Snowbound Sector
Governor John W. Bonner asked President Truman to declare a 500 square mile eastern Montana area a disaster zone near Baker due to three feet of snow. Roads are blocked by wind and cattle may starve. Bonner estimates 50 thousand dollars is needed to open routes and unlock federal funds.
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Helena
John W. Bonner
Truman
Montana
Bonner
Baker
North Dakota
Newbold Morris Shouts at Senate Probe in Outburst
Newbold Morris denounced the Senate investigations panel calling its members diseased minds as he testified about his oil trade with Communist China. He blamed three Republican senators McCarthy Mundt and Nixon for fostering a vile atmosphere and said he would not have allowed oil to Red Chinese ports with what he knows now.
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Washington
Senate
Newbold Morris
Truman
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Mundt
South Dakota
Nixon
California
Morris
Congressional
New York
Abraham Lincoln
United Tanker Corporation
China
Korea
Battle Casualties Rise to 106 458 in Korea
The Defense Department reports U S battle casualties in Korea through last Friday total 106 458 an increase of 160 from the prior week. The tally includes 18 505 dead 75 522 wounded 9 991 missing 1 054 captured 1 386 formerly missing but returned to service across Army Navy Marine Corps and Air Force.
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Washington
Defense Department
U. S
Korea
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Air Force
Police Officials Discuss Monthly Police Meeting
Mutual problems of police officers and city officials were discussed at a closed police department meeting in the city council chambers. Mayor Thomas R. Morgan reported that police commissioner Ben Hardin chairman and members Myron Watson and Neil Kelly attended. Rules from the police manual were read and reviewed as the session planned monthly meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas R. Morgan
Police Commission
Ben Hardin
Myron Watson
Neil Kelly
Hardin
Randolph Base Planes Explode During Training Crash
Two B29 bombers flown by students collided and crashed 20 miles northwest of Randolph Air Force Base in Texas. All 15 aboard were killed, with eight bodies in one wreck and seven in the other. Authorities search through the night for possible survivors or parachutists in the remote wooded area.
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New Braunfels
Texas
Here
Comal County
MacDonald
James Willis
Dallas
Air Force
Randolph Field
C. W. Schneers
Randolph
Red Cross Drive Tops $10,000 in Butte Campaign Progress
The American Red Cross drive in Butte reports total donations of 10 095.40 dollars as of Wednesday aided by many firms and offices. The campaign aims to raise 23 000 dollars to fund local programs and support the mobile blood unit serving Montana and Korea.
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American Red Cross Drive
Butte
James A. Poore, Jr
John W. Cramer
American Red Cross
W. J. McMahon
Korea
The
Red Cross
Montana
Westinghouse Electric Supply
Internal Revenue Bureau
Newbro Drug
Standard Publishing Company
Joseph Thomas Dry Goods
Butte Water Company
First National Bank
Ashton Engraving
Garrett Freight Lines, Inc
Harkins Wholesale
Butte Plumbers Union
Butte Musicians Union
Newman's Bootery
Lydia's
Finlen
Rudy’s
Hostess Cakes
Gardner-Denver Company
Morris Better Service
Rocky Mountain Cafe
American Association of University Women
Supreme Market
Moriarty Adjustment Bureau
Butte Bottlers Supply
Nick
Joe’s
Co. M. St. P and P
Underwood Corporation
Universal Carloading
Shiner Furniture Store
F. E. Buck Sales
Stranahan Oil
Ingersoll Rand and
Lawslor and Rowe
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MacArthur
Associated Press
Fulgencio Batista
Camp Columbia
Batista
Randolph Base
Red Cross Drive
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