City Primary Elections Held Today in Butte and Walkerville
City primaries select party nominees for mayor treasurer police judge and aldermen with polls open noon to 7 pm in Butte across 16 precincts and Walkerville across 3. In Butte four candidates seek Democratic mayoral nomination and two seek Republican. other races include two Democrats for treasurer and one Democratic incumbent for police judge. Walkerville only has Democratic mayoral race with two candidates. aldermen races lack opposition.
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Butte
Walkerville
Eighth Ward
Seventh Ward
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
South
Montana
Jackson
Barry O'Leary
Pat C. Sullivan
Emmett P. Sullivan
Dichard
Dick) Donovan
Congress Faces March 31 Deadlines in Control Measures
Senate leaders pressed to extend sugar and rubber control programs and selective service records before the March 31 expiry. Truman seeks to preserve draft rolls with a new records agency while Lilienthal’s AEC chair nomination faces a hard fight. House moves toward a $1.6 billion Labor Department bill and cuts to the federal conciliation service.
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Washington
Senate
Greece
Turkey
Congress
House
Truman
United States
International Refugee Organization
David E. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Lilienthal
Commission
Labor Department
Federal
Edgar Warren
Communism Seen Behind Paraguayan Army Revolt Says Morinigo
Paraguayan President Higinio Morinigo, in an exclusive interview, blames international Communism for the Concepcion garrison revolt. He cites February and Communist leaders Abdulio Barthe and Marcos Zeida directing the movement, estimating 2500 rebels with limited arms and supplies.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
U.P
Higinio Morinigo
Concepcion
Morinigo
Febrerista
Abdulio Barthe
Marcos Zeida
Accused Slayer Sees Minister In Jail Visit
Beulah Louise Overell 17 and her fiance George R Budd Gollum 21 are charged with murder in the deaths of financier Walter E Overell and his socialite wife Beulah aboard their yacht March 15. Sheriff Musick notes time element as key and a psychiatric exam may occur. The Rev Gerald Bush visited at relatives request.
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Beulah Louise Overell
George Gollum
Santa Ana
Calif
Miss Overell
Newport Harbor
Gerald Bush
James Musick
University of Southern California
George R
Budd) Gollum
Walter E. Overell
Los Angeles
Beulah
Musick
Gollum
R. A. Cushman
Overell
Giant Airliner Sets Flight Record
The DC-6 sleeper plane made a coast to coast non-stop flight from Los Angeles to Miami in seven hours and 14 minutes, covering 2,400 miles. Douglas built the first commercially licensed DC-6, taking off at 6:34 a.m. and landing at 1:45 p.m. E S T. It averaged 332 miles per hour at 20,000 feet.
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Miami
Fla
U.P
Los Angeles
California
Steel embargo held in abeyance in Soviet zone trade pact
American officials said the steel embargo on shipments into Germany's Soviet zone is held in abeyance to give Russia another chance to meet commitments under a $21,000,000 trade pact with the British American zones. The embargo on pig iron steel and standard steel products was to take effect last Friday.
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Berlin
Germany
Burglars Loot Weinberg’s Store In Butte Break-in
Early Sunday burglars gained entry through a fire escape and skylight at Weinberg's store, 18 West Park, And escaped with cash and merchandise still to be tallied. Police Chief Bart J. Riley said investigation continues Sunday evening as store records are checked for exact totals. The entry appeared to occur while staff worked late Saturday night.
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Weinberg
West Park
Bart J. Riley
Riley
R. D. Callahan
Grand- Silver
Grand-Silver
Plan to Break Deadlock Proposed by Marshall in Moscow
United States Secretary of State Marshall proposed bypassing legal title on German assets in Austria to focus on defining which assets exist. Gen. Mark Clark listed 17 points of disagreement as Big Four deputies near report to ministers.
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Moscow
United ,States
Charge C. Marshall
Mark Clark
Austria
Marshall
Clark
See Control Bid in Soviet Plan
Moscow dispatch reports British and American sources view Molotov's plan for a centralized German government as a bid to win German support and maximize Communist control. Observers note British worry that security is sidelined, while talks continue among four powers with a likely month more of debate ahead.
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Moscow
Russia
Communist Party
Molotov
Foreign Ministers’ Council
Germany
Marshall
Congressmen Seek to Make Truman Purge Bind with Funds
Congressmen quiet on loyalty purge plan to wield the purse by denying funds to key federal offices. They cite Edgar Warren’s past associations at the conciliation service and threaten to block David Lilienthal’s Atomic Energy Commission salary if Senate confirms him.
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Washington
Truman
House Appropriations Committee
Edgar L. Warren
House
Warren
Committee On un-American Activities
David E. Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate
Rankin
Miss
Congress Opens Hearings to Outlaw Communist Party
The House Un American Activities Committee begins hearings on bills to outlaw the Communist Party marking a historic pivot since 1917. Witnesses include Eugene Dennis and William Bullitt with leaders from government and labor arranged to testify as White House funding is sought.
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Washington
U.P
Congress
House un-American Activities Committee
Communist Party
Communist Organization
un-American Activities Committee
Karl E. Mundt
Eugene Dennis
William C. Bullitt
Russia
White House
Weather Outlook for Butte and Helena
Butte forecast shows cloudy to partly cloudy Monday with occasional snow showers and a high near 45. School of Mines records a 40/24 day, airport 40/22, trace precipitation. Montana area expects increasing clouds and scattered snow flurries near mountains with high around 40 to 45.
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School of Mines
Montana
Armament Reduction Drive Opens Before U N Today
United Nations opens its drive to cut world armaments as a 111 nation commission meets in Lake Success. American delegate Herschel V. Johnson says any cuts must include airtight safeguards and inspections and link to broader security. The first report to the council is due May 13.
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Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations
United States
Herschel V. Johnson
Atomic Energy Commission
Strikers End 327-Day Walkout at Allis-Chalmers Plant
The CIO United Auto Workers Local 248 at Allis-Chalmers farm equipment plant near Milwaukee voted three to one to end their 327 day strike and return to work without a contract. About 1,500 members balloted. president Robert Buse framed it as a change of tactics, not defeat, amid ongoing congressional scrutiny of union officials.
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Milwaukee
C. I. O. United Automobile Workers
Allis-Chalmers
Robert Buse
Buse
Tug Harry Card Aids Windy Atlantic Run Toward Bermuda
The tug Harry Card, battling heavy seas about 400 miles east of Cape Hatteras, sent a distress signal Sunday but later canceled it and said it was proceeding under its own power toward Bermuda. Coast Guard reported a leaking stern tube aboard the vessel.
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New York
Harry Card
Cape Hatteras
N. C
Bermuda
Coast Guard
Four Teens Die in Railroad Crossing Collision
Four teenagers were killed when their car collided with the Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train Ohioan at a 147th street crossing near Calumet City, Chicago. The engineer reported the train at about 25 mph. wrecking crews freed the occupants after two hours.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania Railroad
Plane Missing On Westover Flight Goes To Newfoundland
Air Transport Command reports an Army C-54 carrying five crew and four passengers disappeared during a flight from Westoverfield Mass to Newfoundland.
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New York
U.P
Air Transport Command
Westoverfield
Mass
Newfoundland
Accusations in Secret Papers Stir Greece Greece Greece
Secret documents released Sunday night accuse Russia of waging a nerve war against Turkey and claim Greece is being stirred from abroad under a master plan to push it toward Communism. They show unpublished British notes asking the United States to take major responsibility for Greece's military and civilian needs.
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Washington
Russia
Turkey
Greece
Britain
United States
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Truman
Ice floe on Yellowstone recedes after flood scare near hall
A Montana flood scare eased as the Yellowstone River fell four feet Sunday after a large nine mile ice pack broke up or drifted toward the Missouri. Deputy Sheriff Mavity reported the river returning to banks along a 60 mile stretch from Sidney to Buford as residents returned home.
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Miles City
Yellowstone
Montana-North Dakota
Dale Mavity
Fairview
Montana
Mavity
Roy W. Milligan
Civil Air Patrol
Missouri
Sidney
Buford
N. D
North Dakota
Milligan
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Bernard FE. Holland
John
Dixie) Fhea
John Seton
William A. Curran
Dewey McGeehan
James T. Douris
John McCartan
Emmett Burke
John Harrington
Dan Kinsella
Frank Moore
Neal Leary
Walter Kinared
Arthur J. Mehrens
Alex Sorich
Chaves
By Walter Cronkite
Earth
White Sands
N. M
United States Navy
Mexico
Gulf of California
Lower
Pacific Ocean
A. P. Wirephoto
Navy
Associated Pre Max. Min. Prep
Billings
Belgrade
Broadus
Cut Bank
Dillon Cateesoe
Drummond Enconses
Glasgow
Great Falls
Havre
Helena
U. N
U.S
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Rep
Colmer
D-Miss
House Committee
Soviet Union
Lucas
Til
Lincoln MacVeagh
Boston
Brewster
San Antonio
Texas
Uncle Sam
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