Purge of Subversives Is Ordered
Washington reports a Senate House conference over cutting government costs and tax reductions ended in deadlock as Republicans failed to seal a compromise on a budget slash. House insists on a 6 billion cut, Senate offered 4.5 billion, with a possible 5.25 billion middle ground, while tax reform remains contested.
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House
Senate
Washington
Senate House
Bridges
R-N. H
Rep
Taber
R-N. Y
Truman
Senate Appropriations Committee
Congressional
Congress
Martin
R-Mass
Emergency $100 Million Loan Proposed for Greece and Turkey
Washington reports an emergency RFC loan of 100 million dollars for Greece and Turkey as Congress nears the March 31 deadline on Truman's Near East program. A simple authorization could pass quickly, though broader 400 million cash and arms aid may arrive after March.
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Washington
U.P
Greece
Turkey
Congress
Truman
Near East
Senate
Democrat
Alben W. Barkley
D-Ky
Econstruction Finance Corporation
Barkley
Mr. Truman
Woman Wounded by Rifle Blast
Lewistown reports a 62 year old carpenter is held after a rifle blast wounded Minnie Phillips, 58, a restaurant worker, leaving her in critical condition with a chest wound. Police found the suspect in her kitchen after neighbors summoned officers. he offered no resistance and cited a weeks long quarrel with his housekeeper.
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Lewistown
Louise Replogle
Minnie Phillips
Phillips
Frank Barrows
Ben Anderson
Miss Replogle
Allen
Island Trusteeship Imperative to Peace
Washington dispatch reports Francis B. Sayre, U S representative on the United Nations trusteeship council, to broadcast that U N trusteeship over strategic Pacific bases is imperative for world peace. He notes control of the Carolines, Marianas and Marshall Islands by a great power is essential to secure lasting peace and strengthen the United Nations.
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Washington
U.P
Francis B. Sayre
United Nations Trusteeship Council
United States
Pacific
Sayre
Carolines
Marianas
Marshall Islands
United Nations
Old-Time Butte Matron Minnie Staples Dies
Minnie Staples a native of England and longtime Butte resident died Saturday at her son in law and daughter s home 1031 Lewisohn after a long illness Surviving are three sons eight grandchildren and a brother in Minnesota She was active in several fraternal orders and a devout Methodist A body is at Whites mortuary
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Minnie Staples
England
Butte
W. H. Johns
Lewisohn
Staples
Ruth
Order of Ertern Star
Tirzah Temple
Daughters of the Nile
John Northey
Eveleth, Minn
Whites’ Mortuary
Weather Outlook for Butte and Montana Regions
Mostly cloudy with showers possible Sunday and evening. Warmer by day with highs near 48. School of Mines reports 52/31, airport 46/31, trace precipitation. West of divide: cloudy and cooler Sunday. East of divide: cloudy with light showers or snow flurries spreading from north and west, winds 15 to 30 mph, clearing west portion Sunday.
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Butte
School of Mines
Montana
Divide
State
Documents labeled secret prove poor background on Greece Turkey aid
A House foreign affairs panel reviewed a batch of background documents on Truman's request to aid Greece and Turkey. The material proved largely historical, with delayed copies and protests from lawmakers demanding public release. Details on Turkey's stance in the Dardanelles dispute remained unclear.
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Washington
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Greece
Turkey
Acheson
State Department
Truman
Talaat Pasha
Enver Pasha
Dardanelles Straits
Butte Voters Ballot in Municipal Primary Monday
Butte residents will cast ballots in the municipal primary for mayor treasurer police judge and 16 alderman seats. Polls open noon to 7 pm across 16 precincts with 14 071 registered voters.
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Butte
John Seton
Bob White
Thomas R. Morgan
Bery Wilson
St. Mary Church
Hazel Block
Quartz Street
Caledonia Street
Arizona Street
Sacred Heart School
Public Library
Lincoln School
Utah Avenue
East Second
West Galena
West Mercury
Williams
Front
Atlantic Streets
Harrison Avenue
Dewey backs Truman Greece aid plan in proclamation
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey endorsed President Truman booting Communist expansion with aid to Greece saying it should have full American support. He called Greeks a brave bulwark against oppression and said help is necessary to resist armed and ideological aggression while designating Greek War Relief day in New York.
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Albany
N. Y
Thomas E. Dewey
Truman
United States
Greece
Europe
Dewey
New York
Turkey
James C. Hagerty
Soviet Plan for Reich Made Known
Moscow reports reveal Soviet proposals for a postwar Germany based on a Weimar framework with a two chamber parliament and proportional representation. The plan urged a provisional regime from 10 to 18 laender, immediate establishment, no German military, and a loosely supervised transfer of power by Allied authorities. Britain and France criticized the outline while the United States supported federalization.
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Russia
Council of Foreign Ministers
Weimar Republic
Adolf Hitler
George C. Marshall
United States
Britain
France
America
Germany
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
Marshall
Laender
Allied Control Council
U S Promised Access to Indonesian Raw Materials
Acting Netherlands East Indies governor general Hubertus J. Van Mook said the Cheribon draft agreement would soon be signed, giving the United States access to large quantities of sugar rubber sisal and quinine from Indonesia. He projected American ships would receive a fair share as negotiations move forward.
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Batavia
Java
Netherlands East Indies
United States
Indonesia
Hubertus J. van Mook
Netherlands
van Mook
Truman Orders Broad Loyalty Drive for Federal Workers
President Truman announced an all out campaign to purge subversives from the government. He ordered 2.3 million federal workers checked, loyalty reviews for merit and non merit job seekers, loyalty boards set up in each department, and personal accountability for department heads, with a master loyalty index to cover loyalty investigations since 1939.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
Turkey
Greece
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Civil Service Commission
Secretaries of War
Navy
Treasury
Army
Coast Guard
White House
Heiress and fiance charged with yacht murder in California
Beulah Louis Overell age 17 and George E. Gollum age 21 faced murder with malice aforethought charges for the time bomb deaths of Beulah’s parents on their motor cruiser in Newport Harbor. District attorney James L. Davis and police chief R R Hodgkinson announced the indictments after a week of investigation. Arraignment before Justice Donald J. Dodge featured bail and preliminary hearing disputes.
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Santa Ana
Calif
U.P
Beulah Louis Overell
George E
Bud) Gollum
Los Angeles City College
Walter E. Overell
Beulah
Overells
Newport Beach
R. R. Hodgkinson
James L. Davis
Hodgkinson
Justice of the Peace
Donald J. Dodge
Costa Mesa
Sailor Charged With Murder After Oakland Fight
James C. Helms, 21, a sailor from Henryetta Oklahoma aboard the Alameda Naval air station, was charged with the murder of Joseph W. Ferguson, 33, in Oakland after a brutal rooming house fight last week. Helms returned to jail from Herrick Memorial hospital where he was treated for leg wounds.
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Oakland
Calif
U.P
James C. Helms
Henryetta
Okla
Joseph W. Ferguson
Helms
Alameda Naval Air Station
Herrick Memorial Hospital
Flood Threat Looms as Ice Backs up Yellowstone
In northeastern Montana the lower Yellowstone valley faces a major flood risk as frozen Missouri ice jams the Yellowstone crest for about five miles. Deputy Sheriff Dale Mavity reported rising river levels from Fairview to Sidney, with residents evacuating livestock and moving to high ground. Army engineers and local crews monitor a new ice floe expected to reach Sidney, fearing a large dam could burst and flood areas between Sidney and Fort Peck. Maj. C. W. Tazewell noted emergency flood crews are ready along the Yellowstone.
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Miles City
Montana
Yellowstone Valley
Missouri
Yellowstone
Fairview
Richland County
Dale Mavity
Fort Buford
N. C
Sidney
Mont
John Collins
Ready
Army Engineer Corps
Maiity
C. W. Tazewell
Fort Peck
Fifteenth Army Air Force
Colorado Spring
Tazewell
Engineer Corps
Death Warrant of OPA Is Signed Into Law
President Truman signs death warrant for the Office of Price Administration effective June 30 1947 and urges Congress to extend rent and sugar controls via other agencies. Senate Republican leaders fail to resolve continuation of controls as housing and wartime agencies are liquidated.
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Washington
Truman
OPA
Congress
Senate
CPA
Civiliian Production Administration
Frank R. Creedon
Treasury
OTC
Dikes Shattered by Flood Waters
Flood waters burst through sandbagged dikes in Norfolk fenlands affecting 25 000 acres. Troops prisoners of war and farmers fought to plug the breaks as roads closed and further snows threatened more floods. Two deaths reported, thousands displaced, millions in crop damage.
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London
Norfolk
England
Scotland
Man Falls at Horseshoe Falls in Niagara Canada
How ard H. Foreman 41, assistant to the president of the Dominion Chain company, fell or jumped to his death at Horseshoe Falls on Saturday. Police identified him from papers in a wallet found on the retaining wall.
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Niagara Falls
Ont
U.P
Howard H. Foreman
Dominion Chain Company
Horseshoe Falls
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Ray F. Allen
Associated Press
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