Paratroopers Seize Munsan Area as Red Resistance Fatal
Allied drop at Munson near Munsan drives deep behind North Korean lines below the 38th parallel. Gen MacArthur says the operation crushes Red hopes, with 3 000 parachuted troops, 150 200 enemy killed, 87 captured, and 3 420 total enemy casualties since Jan. 25 as UN forces advance up to six miles.
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Seoul
38Th Parallel
MacArthur
South Korea
North
Munson
Seoul-Pyongyang
Munsan
Korea
China
United Nations
Chunchon
Jim Becker
Uijongbu
Frank S. Bowen
Matthew B. Ridgway
Eighth Army
Bowen
Typhoon Pearl Skirts U.S. Nuclear Test Zone
Typhoon Pearl with winds near 110 mph held a steady path March 23, posing a threat to the United States atomic proving grounds at Eniwetok as it moved about 390 miles east of the atoll in the Marshall Islands. A weather bureau official warned that monitoring should begin now.
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Pearl
Arbor
United States Atomic Proving Grounds
Eniwetok
Weather Bureau
Atoll
Marshall Islands
Cost of living rises 1.3 percent to new high
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 1.3 percent cost of living increase from Jan 15 to Feb 15, lifting the index to 183.8 of the 1935 39 base and marking an 8 percent rise since June 1950. The change affects about 1,000,000 railroad workers whose possible six cent hourly raise may exceed the wage ceiling.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Red Cross Drive Nears Goal Short by $5000 in Butte
Butte faces one final week to meet the $24,000 goal for the American Red Cross campaign. Through Friday noon donations totaled $18,830.75 as workers pursue support for home services and veterans aid amid national defense efforts.
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Butte
American Red Cross
Red Cross
American National Red Cross
Truman Spending Policies Blasted by Pasadena Veteran
William M. Jeffers, retired head of the Union Pacific, blasts President Truman as spending to taxpayer drain, accusing him of old tax and spend policies. From Pasadena, he writes to Vice President Barkley dated March 16, urging action and promising willing men to help, with copies sent to all Senate members. Barkley’s office acknowledged receipt but said he had not yet seen the letter.
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Washington
William M. Jeffers
Union Pacific Railroad
Truman
Pasadena
Calif
Barkley
Jeffers
Senate
Miller Brother Rescued After Parachute Jump at Sea
Dillon March 23 Foreman Frank Miller reports his brother Ens Daniel D. Miller was rescued after an emergency parachute jump by air sea rescue boats. Miller an engineering officer with fighter squadron 871 completed training before joining a carrier and has served in Korea. A prior 175 foot cliff accident near Perma Montana left him hospitalized. The Miller family supplied eight service members in World War II and beyond.
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Dillon
Frank Miller
The
Dillon Tribune
Ens
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Ens. Miller
Korea
Perma
Montana
Miller
Armed Service
Army
Navy
WACS
Big Four Secret Meeting Ends With Little Progress
Paris reports the Big Four deputy foreign ministers held a four hour secret discussion. An official Western source said little was accomplished as a deadlock persists on topics for a chiefs meeting. Open talks to resume Saturday with public details. Britain and France appear more eager than the United States to reach agreement.
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Paris
United States
Britain
France
Butte Prepares for Easter Celebrations Across Faiths
Butte residents end the 40 day Lenten period with Easter Sunday joys. Churches host long Good Friday rites and Union meditation at Mountain View Methodist drew thousands. Catholic and Protestant services fill venues as choirs rehearse for Easter hymns and priests prepare sermons of hope.
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Butte
Mountain View Methodist Church
Czech Ambassador Seeks Political Refuge in Britain
Dr Bohuslav Kratochvil former Czechoslovak ambassador to India and his family arrived in Liverpool to seek political refuge in Britain. A party member said they fled due to harassment by Communist agents from Prague after leaving New Delhi on March 1 following Vlado Clementis arrest.
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England
India
Britain
Prague
Bohuslav Kratochvil
Jal-Azad
Zita Wagner
New Delhi
Czechoslovakia
Vlado Clementis
Tire Deliveries for New Cars Are Slashed
The National Production Authority ordered a 25 percent cut in tire and tube deliveries for new passenger cars effective April 1 due to rising military rubber demand. Distributors will be limited to a 30 day supply, and manufacturers may deliver 75 percent of Q1 amounts to car makers in Q2.
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Washington
National Production Authority
NPA
Truman
Bureau of Labor Statistics
BLS
Pires
O'Dwyer Status Under Fire as Inquiry Calls Grow
Senator Tobey urged the Senate foreign relations committee to consider whether William O Dwyer should remain as ambassador to Mexico amid testimony in the crime investigation. Other committees have sought probes into perjury or tax evasion claims surrounding O Dwyer.
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Washington
Tobey
R-N. H
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
William O’dwyer
Mexico
Senate
O’dwyer
New York
O'Dwyer
Foreign Relations Committee
Connally
D-Texas
Army halved April draft call due to enlistments surge
The Army cut the April draft call from 80 000 to 40 000 men citing a surge in voluntary enlistments and fewer anticipated Korean casualties. May call remains at 60 000. standby measures and draft age reductions remain under Congressional consideration. ROTC graduates and other sectors will be drawn to active service this summer with specific deferment rules applied.
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Washington
U.P
Army
Congress
Selective Service
ROTC
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Organized Reserve Corps
Railroads Seek 15 Percent Freight Rate Increase
U P railroads announce plans to file with the Interstate Commerce Commission for an average 15 percent rise in freight rates. They cite higher wages and material costs, noting increases exceed 950 million dollars over prior estimates and would replace the earlier six percent petition.
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Chicago
U.P
Interstate Commerce Commission
Eastern
Western and Southern
ICC
Southern and
Western
Boy Claims Older Companion Asked to Be Shot
In Omaha on March 23 10 year old Harold Crippen tearfully described how 17 year old Pat McQuinn urged him to shoot during a rifle practice on a Missouri river levee. Crippen said McQuinn handed him the gun and asked for death claiming he would show courage.
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Omaha
Harold Crippen
Pat McQuinn
Missouri River
Pat
Crippen
John J. Hanley
McQuinn
Flares Reported Near Missing C124 With 53 Aboard
US Air Force officers reported flares and wreckage sighted along the Atlantic route to Britain where a C124 missing with 53 aboard disappeared in fog and rain. A RAF officer said a life raft was spotted and weather ships Jig and Charlie closed in about 450 miles west of Ireland. The transport carried 48 passengers and five crew, including Brig Gen Paul T. Cullen and SAC officers Col Kenneth N. Gray Lt E A McKay Lt Col J I Hopkins and Maj G H Stoddard. The aircraft took off from Limestone Maine with refueling at Gander Newfoundland.
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London
United States Air Force
Shannon
Atlantic
Royal Air Force
Uxbridge
England
Ireland
Atlantic Ocean
United States
Britain
Paul T. Cullen
Second Air Force
Barksdale Field
Shreveport
Strategic Air Command
Omaha
Neb
SAC
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E. A. McKay
J. I. Hopkins
G. H. Stoddard
Directorate of
Walker Air Base
N. M
Limestone
Maine
Gander
Newfoundland
the United
Weather Hinders Search for Montana Pilot
Weather over the Rocky Mountains slowed a Friday search for Julius Bechard a 60 year old pilot overdue on a Geraldine Montana to Spokane flight He left his Geraldine area farm at 7 10 am Thursday en route to Spokane to pick up his daughter Alice for Easter He flew a four passenger silver Cessna NC 9051 A An Army plane from Seattle aided the civilian search with aircraft scanning western Montana and Idaho mountains Low visibility snow and rough terrain kept discovery efforts limited with pilots monitoring the primitive Geraldine Idaho border route via Clark Fork canyon as a possible crossing Lookout Pass cloud ceiling worsened the chances of locating him
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Rocky Mountains
Geraldine
Spokane
Wash
Julius Bechard
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Alice
Dick Breckbill
Montana Aeronautics
Seattle
Great Falls
Idaho
Breckbill
Forest Service
Bedhard
Lookout Pass
Bechard
Clark Fork Canyon
Spirit Lake
Group Formed to Fight for RFC
Wendell Berge announced the formation of the small manufacturers emergency committee to preserve the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He argued abolishing the agency would strike a death blow to thousands of small businesses and urged continued life for RFC amid Senate support for its abolition.
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Washington
Byrd
D-Va
RFC
Small Manufacturers’ Emergency Committee
Wendell Berge
Justice Department
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Berge
Weather Forecast For Butte And Montana Regions
Mostly cloudy in Butte with light rain or snow showers in the afternoon. Saturday highs 40s, lows around 20. Airport and School of Mines readings show Saturday highs near 40, 38, with lower morning values. West of Divide cloudy and warmer 40 to 50, east of Divide partly cloudy with winds and highs 45 to 55.
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School of Mines
Montana
Divide
Strike Over Meat Workers Delayed To May Dates
Chicago March 23 Two unions and two major packers reached agreement to delay threatened strikes at least until May The extension applies to wage talks for 11 cents an hour with Swift Armour and Company and unions including the AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen and the National Brotherhood of Packinghouse Workers The CIO United Packinghouse Workers reportedly did not join the time extension plans The affected plants span Chicago Fort Worth Kansas City St Louis and other cities with 10 000 workers involved at Swift affiliates as the Wage Stabilization Board reopens the issue
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Chicago
Swift and Company
Armour and Company
AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Swift
National Brotherhood of Packinghouse Workers
CIO United Packinghouse Workers
CIO
AFL
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Swift and Armour and Company
Brotherhood
Confederated Unions
Fort Worth
Texas
Kansas City
St. Louis
St. Joseph
Marshalltown
Iowa
Cleveland
Lake Charles
Des Moines
San Antonio
Black bear scales pole in Crow Agency scare
Crow Agency reports Blackie the pet black bear climbed a 40 foot power pole Friday. A contact with a 7200 volt line knocked him off. Gerry Williams chased for a rifle as onlookers watched the dramatic moment. Blackie and Goofy the buffalo were present during the melee.
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Blackie
Gerry Williams
Willliams
Williams
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