Belgian government resigns to stall Leopold return
The Belgian government quits, blocking a joint parliamentary session to reinstate King Leopold. Liberal ministers oppose the move despite a plebiscite showing majority support for Leopold, as regent Prince Charles consults leaders and a 24 hour strike unfolds in the south before normalcy resumes.
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Brussels
Belgium
Leopold
Switzerland
Prince Charles
Robert Gillon
House
Franz van Cauwelaert
Senate
Julian Lahaut
Communist Party
Walloonia
Flanders
Walloon
Paul-Henri Spaak
Charleroi
Mons
Naumur
Senators Line Up Against Farm Price Bill
In Washington on March 18 a bipartisan bloc of Republicans and administration Democrats warned the Senate against approving a farm price support compromise. Senator Aiken of Vermont predicted heavy Republican opposition and 10 to 15 administration Democrats would vote against it, saying the measure would raise taxpayers costs and threaten the farm support program. He noted southern Democrats largely back the plan to boost potato cotton and peanut production. The proposal also would drop price supports for Irish potatoes after this year.
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Washington
Senate
House
Aiken
GOP
Elder's Crew Safe After Mid-Pacific Rescue at Sea
The Elder crew of 40, saved from a March 10 fire and explosion, were found safe with 26 in life rafts and Lt. William F. Adams and 13 volunteers aboard the charred ship. Navy officials dispatched well done messages while an inquiry began into why a nearby transport did not respond to distress signals. Lt. Adams criticized Gen. A W Brewster's failure to aid.
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Pearl Harbor
Navy
Elder
mid-Pacific
Hawaiian Sea Frontier Command
William F. Adams
Adams
Pacific Fleet
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
A. W. Brewster
Yokohama
San Francisco
Trawler Gertrude de Costa Sinks After Collision
The 115 foot trawler Gertrude de Costa, from Yarmouth Nova Scotia, was rammed by the inter-island steamer Connector off Halifax harbor in darkness. Eleven of her 17 crew members, all Nova Scotians except one from Grand Bank Newfoundland, drown. The Connector is outbound for St. John's Mid. Both ships are Canadian registry.
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Halifax
N. S
Gertrude de Costa
Connector
St. John’s
Mid
Halifax Harbor
Yarmouth
Grand Bank
Storms Deck Midwest Coast to New York Ports
A trio of winter storms hit the plains and eastern seaboard with snow and heavy seas. Forecaster Jerome Namias predicted 30 more days of unusually cold weather in the eastern two thirds. Snow fell from Montana to the Dakotas and Nebraska, with chilling lows across North Carolina to Kansas and the Rockies. the Queen Mary faced delays amid violent winds and heavy seas.
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Plains States
Seaboard
Atlantic
Jerome Namias
Weather Bureau
Washington
Midwest
Plains
Portland
Maine
Newfoundland
Illinois
Indiana
New York
New England
Canadian
Pembina
N. C
North Carolina
Kansas
Strike vote begins among Chicago Pullman workers
Chicago March 18 The Order of Railway Conductors started a strike vote among its 2 200 Pullman system members. The dispute runs separately from the presidential fact finding panel case involving conductors and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen over railroad working rules.
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Chicago
Order of Railway Conductors
Pullman System
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Montana Square Dance Festival Supports Cancer Relief
The first annual Montana Square Dance festival for cancer relief spans April 21 and 22 at Columbia Gardens with entrants from Alberta and Montana. Dr. Lloyd Shaw will direct a caller and dancer clinic on April 22, charging five dollars per caller and one dollar per dancer. Admission to festival events is sixty cents.
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Montana
Alberta
Canada
Lloyd Shaw
Columbia Gardens
Shaw
Cheyenne Mountain
Colorado Springs
Colo
Cancer Relief
Trade Paralyzed as East Mark Slumps in Berlin Zone
The East mark in the Soviet zone fell to just over two cents, halting trade in the Russian sector of Berlin. Merchants refused goods, fearing further devaluation after a 30 percent drop in 24 hours. Rumors of ruble revaluations spurred panic. East German Bank of Emission denial did not stop the slide. Berliners clung to the western mark backed by European recovery and the American dollar.
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Berlin
East Germany
Money Exchange
Truman backs Acheson peace terms on cold war curb
President Truman said Americans should have no fear in answering census questions starting April 1 and voiced support for Acheson's seven point proposal to end the cold war with Russia. He was in accord with the foreign policy talks and congratulated Acheson by phone.
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Key West
Fla
Truman
Acheson
Russia
Charles G. Ross
California
Washington
Its Hubby's Turn in the Doghouse
In Grand Rapids on a Friday night Mrs. Yalacki locked herself in the family doghouse after a spat with husband Martin Yalacki. Police removed her after officers soothed the dispute. The couple were told to return indoors and let the dog use the structure.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Martin Vlacki
Yalackis
Senators Demand Cut in Foreign Relief
The Senate appropriations panel informally urged that foreign aid share in any budget cuts, signaling they will resist domestic reductions without trimming Marshall Plan and Atlantic Pact funds. The House plans a $29.113 billion domestic measure, with total cuts of $1.213 billion from Truman’s request, about 4 percent. Senator Maybank said he will not back domestic cuts without foreign program relief, urging reductions in ECA and Atlantic Pact military funds.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations Committee
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
House
Senate Committee
House Committee
Mr. Truman
Maybank
D-S.c
Appropriations
Chiang's Forces Raid Mainland
Nationalist sources hinted Sunday that forces conducted a commando raid on the Chinese mainland about 200 miles south of Shanghai. The Central Daily News reports troops landed and occupied Sungmen with guerrilla aid, but Premier Chen Cheng and air HQ offered no confirmation.
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Taipei
Formosa
Red China
Shanghai
Central Daily News
Kuomintang
Sungmen
Chen Cheng
Linhai
Taichow
Chekiang Province
Chiang Kai-shek
Boy Who Underwent 150 Blood Transfusions Dies
TOLEDO Ohio March 18 When Richard Hady five year old son of a Toledo grocer died Saturday he had not one drop of his own blood left in his tiny body The boy had undergone more than 150 blood transfusions since he was nine months old Doctors had injected about 20 gallons of borrowed blood into his body enough to change completely his own normal supply 50 times Richard was a victim of Mediterranean anemia named for its prevalence among people living on the shore of that sea
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Toledo
Ohio
Richard Hady
Richard
Czech Bishops Guilty of Treason Declared by Justice Minister
Prague report says Alexej Cepicka, minister of justice, declared in a budget debate that the country’s Roman Catholic bishops are guilty of high treason. Cepicka led the drive to subdue the church as Vatican envoys left Prague under government orders.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
U.P
Alexej Cepicka
Cepicka
National Assembly
Vatican
Census to Be Biggest Quiz Show in History
The 1950 census begins April for two weeks in cities and three to four weeks in rural areas. About 151 million people will answer questions, with up to 140000 census counters visiting 40000000 doors. Farmers answer by mail starting soon, and noncompliance could bring a $500 fine and 60 days in jail.
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Washington
United States
Butte Weather Forecast Mixed Clouds and Light Snow Sunday
Mostly cloudy with occasional light snow on Sunday and little temperature change. Sunday minimum around 33 and maximum near 42. Airport and School of Mines readings show highs in the low 40s and lows in the mid to upper 20s. West of Divide cloudy with possible snow showers. east of Divide partly cloudy with limited snow in the western mountains.
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School of Mines
Montana
Divide
Air Force Plans to Build Listening Posts in Polar Defense
The Air Force outlines plans for three ultra long range interceptor stations with a 2000 mile reach to detect enemy battle orders from Soviet forces. The sites aim to bolster polar defense alongside radar networks and Arctic air operations, with details disclosed during congressional budget briefings. Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks Alaska is cited as limited for strategic operations.
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Washington
Russia
Congress
House Armed Services Committee
United States
Eielson Air Force Base
Fairbanks
Alaska
Tito Signals Independent Course for Yugoslavia
Belgrade March 18 Yugoslav strongmen Milovan Djilas and Edvard Kardelj pledge a straight independent path in the cold war. Djilas spoke to 25 000 at an outdoor rally. Kardelj spoke in Cernomelj as campaigning for March 26 national elections enters its final week. Tito’s People’s Front ticket is unopposed.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Marshal Tito
Milovan Dijilas
Yugoslav Communist Party
Edvard Kardelj
Cernomelj
Tito
People’s Front
Butte Central Crowned Montana Champions In Overtime Victory
Butte Central high Maroons won Montana’s interscholastic basketball title with a 63-59 overtime win over Helena Bengals before 4,000 plus in Memorial gym Anaconda placed third by beating Billings 54-36 in the prelim. Emmett Casey led with 20 points, Tom Kelly 18, Jim Sullivan sealed the overtime with two field goals. Helena’s Bob Kelley 16 and Anderson 15 paced their team.
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Butte Central High Maroons
Anaconda
Maroons
Helena
Joe Kelly
Bob O'Leary
Don Kelly
Jim Sullivan
Riley Redding
Emmett Casey
Bob Sullivan
Tom Mulcahy
Bud Brisbin
Jack Courtney
Jack Redman
Tom Kelly
Gary Winston
Don Hogan
John Frankino
Montana
Helena High Bengals
Memorial Gym
Central
Butte
Ed Roy
Billings
Butte Central
Kalispell
Bozeman
Bob Kelley
Anderson
Loyalty Board Refuses to Answer Prober
The Civil Service Loyalty Review Board refused to answer four questions from Senator McCarthy about Diplomat John Service, citing a presidential order. Chairman Seth W. Richardson said details of loyalty files cannot be disclosed to nonoperational staff, and he suggested McCarthy pursue the matter with President Truman.
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Washington
Civil Service Loyalty Review Board
McCarthy
R-Wis
John 8. Service
Seth W. Richardson
Truman
Service
India
State Department
Department
Civil Service Review Board
Richardson
Review Board
Senate
Civil Service Loyalty Board
George
Dga
Foreign Re
Most Wanted Criminal Captured After Cave Smoke Out
William Nesbit, 51, once among the nations ten most wanted criminals, surrendered without a fight after a group of boys smoked him out of his cave hideout on a Mississippi river bluff. Nesbit was identified by local youths from a St Paul newspaper clipping and police soon arrested him. Nesbit had escaped Sioux Falls prison in 1946 while serving a 20 year term for the powderhouse dynamiting murder tied to a $37000 Sioux City jewel robbery. He was implicated with gang members including Helen Seilers and Lee Bradley, both connected to the earlier case and now serving life terms or awaiting trial.
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ST. Paul
Minn
U.P
William Nesbit
Mississippi River
James Lewis
Nesbit
Sioux Falls
S. D
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Harold
Baker
Sioux City
Iowa
Helen Seilers
Lee Bradley
Pilgrims Ride to Rome by Bike and Horseback
Mrs. Henrietta Canicade, 60, completed an 800 mile bicycle pilgrimage to Rome in 58 days arriving in Rome from Salies de Bearn in the French Pyrenees. Countess Ellen Hohenau also reached northern Italy on horseback after starting March 6 from Garnisch Germany and is about halfway to Rome.
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Rome
Henrietta Canicade
Salies de Bearn
French Pyrenees
Ellen Hohenau
Italy
Garmisch
Germany
Montana Tourist Records Broken in 1949 Visit Totals
Montana publicist announces 2,122,000 visitors spent 65,295,000 in 1949, a record year with an average 30.77 per visitor. Traffic through nine ports totaled 204,641 cars and 654,851 passengers as Missoula port led in popularity, while Washington and California led out-of-state origins.
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Helena
Montana
al Erickson
Erickson
Missoula
Columbia Falls
Pacific Coast States
Washington
California
Woman Found Dead on Plane Leaves Note for Husband
A 32 year old Kansas City woman died on arrival in Amarillo after flying with her 10 month old son. She left a note for her husband and airline hostess requesting care instructions for the child. Authorities expect an inquest verdict Sunday. The physician suggested sleeping pills may have caused death.
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Amarillo
Texas
Clifford Snow
Kansas City
Clifford
Ivy Wilkinson
Guy Owens
Harry T. Snow
Vernita Bowlin
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