Row Between Officials Calms Down Row Between Officials Calms
Washington March 25 A bitter row among high government officials over steel wage policy eased slightly as leaders urged teamwork to avert a 650 000 steel worker strike set for April 8 The Wage Stabilization Board faced criticism over proposed 1742 cent an hour raises and additional benefits with Defense Mobilizer Charles E Wilson seeking to avert a walkout while Chairman Nathan Feinsinger returned from a tour expressing cautious optimism
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Washington
CIO
House Rules Committee
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Wage Board
Nathan Feinsinger
Montana veterans may start bonus payments within 60 days
Gov. John W. Bonner said Montana World War II veterans could begin receiving the $10 a month stateside and $15 overseas bonus within 60 days. Readvertising the $22,000,000 honorarium bond issue is planned as credit restrictions ease.
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Bonner
Helena
Montana
John W. Bonner
Truman
Credit Restraint Committee
Jack Henry
Chicago
Halsey Stuart and Company
Henry
James FE. Murray
D-Mont
Charles E. Wilson
Murray
Wilson
Two Safecrackers Sentenced in Butte Burglaries
Dewey Bise and Allen Marcus, both 35 to 38, were each sentenced to five years after pleading guilty to burglary of the New National Market at 307 North Main. Sanford Parsons, 35, faced charges and requested more time as arraignment was postponed. Prosecutors said $1,238 was taken and $858.81 recovered, with the trio also linked to a Snell Auto Repair shop break-in.
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Dewey Bise
Allen Marcus
Butte
New National Market
North Main
Sanford Parsons
Bise
Marcus
T. E. Downey
Hansen Markets Company
Rise
J. Frank Sullivan
Parsons
Snell
Sullivan
Six Die in St George Hotel Blaze in Los Angeles
A blaze at the six floor St George hotel in Los Angeles killed five men by suffocation and a sixth person leapt to his death from a window. Thirteen others were injured as flames surged through a rear stairway trapping guests and prompting dramatic rescues by firemen and police. A. D. Bernhardt died after rushing upstairs as the fire began, with Emil Mongee and Gloria Clower among the injured.
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Los Angeles
St. George
F. H. Rothermel
Skid Row
A. D. Bernhardt
Bernhardt
Emil Mongee
Seattle
Mongee
Gloria Clower
Las Vegas
Nev
Jean Clower
Leland Whitehouse
Little Chief White Eagle
R. P. Ferdinand
France Offers Tunisia Home Rule After Dismissal Demand
In Tunis on March 25 France proposed expanded self rule for Tunisia but insisted Premier Mohammed Chenik and his pro Nationalist cabinet be ousted by the bey. French officials reported the bey’s 70 year old regent Sidi Mohammed Al Amin replied with a temporizing note and did not specify a delay duration.
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Tunis
Tunisia
France
Mohammed Chenik
Sidi Mohammed Al-Amin
Butte Man Jailed in Hong Kong on Check Charge
Robert Elmer Decker of Butte Montana was found guilty of obtaining money under false pretenses for cashing a $1500 certified check then using the funds to travel to Rome and beyond. His sentencing was delayed a week to allow repayment before deportation to U S authorities.
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Butte Man
Hong Kong
Robert Elmer Decker
Butte
Mont
Decker
Rome
Marseilles
Casablanca
Manilla
Manila
Wife cites idle husband in Cleveland divorce case
A 47-year-old woman won a divorce Tuesday in Cleveland testifying her husband, Edward Geiger, 52, would not work except as a bookie and that his constant disturbance by her alarm clock waking him for work annoyed him. The couple had been married 10 years.
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Cleveland
Marie Geiger
Edward
Bonner Appeals for New U S Aid for Snow Cleanup
Governor John W. Bonner asked President Truman for an additional 25000 in emergency aid to finish snow removal in eastern Montana within a week. The request would raise total federal funding for the 8000000 acre disaster area to 90000 and cover plowing by 22 state snow teams across seven counties.
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Helena
U.P
John W. Bonner
Truman
Bonner
Montana
State Highway Department
William Bawden
McCone
Daniels
Swift Bandits Steal 681000 from Money Truck in Danvers
Three masked robbers seized 681000 from a money transport truck while driver and two guards were at a Danvers drug store for coffee. Entrance appeared from a door key, with the car fleeing toward Boston and later found abandoned in Everett. Police questioned the crew and FBI and local authorities pursued leads.
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Danvers
Mass
Raymond Kirwin
Kirwin
Newburyport Turnpike
Boston
Everett
Johansen
FBI
Noonan
Massachusetts
North Shore
Danvers National Bank
Brannan Under Fire Over Camp Crowder Grain Deal
Senator Williams accuses Secretary of Agriculture Brannan of acting like president as hearings begin on government grain storage at Camp Crowder Missouri. Brannan disputes charges, cites profits and losses by Midwest Storage and Realty and another firm, while Aiken and Kem push for Brannan's appearance before the committee.
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Washington
Williams
Truman
Brannan
Senate Agriculture Committee
Camp Crowder
Agricultural Department
Midwest Storage and Realty Company of
Kansas City
Midwest
Senator Aiken
R-Vt
Aiken
Agriculture Department
House Probers Make Tax Records Public
Washington March 25. House investigators released secret Internal Revenue Bureau records showing Sen Styles Bridges and Henry W Grunewald pressed for a Baltimore liquor dealer’s 7 000 000 tax case. Dealer Hyman Harvey Klein testified he never met Bridges or Grunewald and did not know why they took interest.
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Washington
House
Styles Bridges
Henry W. Grunewald
Baltimore
Hyman Harvey Klein
New Hampshire
Grunewald
Bridges
Senate
Internal Revenue Bureau
Committee
Adrian Dewind
Klein
Internal Revenue
E. Gayle McGuigan
Richard Kilcullen
Charles Oliphant
Stassen and Warren Offer Votes for Eisenhower in Wisconsin
Harold Stassen bid to unite GOP delegates by promising 15 of his 30 Wisconsin delegates to Eisenhower on the first Chicago ballot. The Warren camp echoed offers to back Eisenhower if their candidates could not win the nomination. In Wisconsin Kefauver leads the Democratic race as Truman is not on the ballot. Taft and MacArthur factions clash in New Jersey over ballot access.
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Harold E. Stassen
Wisconsin
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stassen
Earl Warren
California
Eisenhower
Warren
Robert A. Taft
Minnesota
Chicago
Douglas MacArthur
Taft Taft
Sen. Estes Kefauver
Truman
New Jersey
Taft
Ohio
Alfred E. Driscoll
Dulles Quits Federal Post Amid Campaign Hopes
John Foster Dulles resigned Tuesday as special adviser to the State Department. He said he may express foreign policy views during the presidential campaign but will not embarrass the administration or any candidate. He vowed not to disrupt bipartisan foreign policy accord.
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Key West
Fla
API
John Foster Dulles
State Department
Dulles
Thomas E. Dewey
West Rejects Soviet Proposal for Unified Germany
The United States Britain and France rejected Moscow's call for a unified Germany to review its armed forces. They demanded free elections in eastern Germany and UN verification before discussing a four-power peace treaty.
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Germany
Washington
United States
Britain
France
Russia
East Germany
Moscow
Reich
United Nations
UN Investigation Commission
Berlin
Allies Agree on Inspection Ports in Korea Talks
Allied and Communist negotiators reached formal agreement on 10 ports and surrounding areas to be watched by neutral inspectors. Russia as a neutral observer was rejected by the UN command, with a spokesman stating they would not discuss the issue. A separate prisoner-exchange session yielded only inconclusive results, kept secret to break a three month deadlock.
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Munsan
Korea
Russia
United Nations Command
Panmunjom
Don O. Darrow
Red
Peiping
San Francisco
Reds
North
South Korea
Mass Jump in Fort Hood Exercise Leaves One Dead
Reported at Fort Hood Texas on March 25 the Long Horn exercise saw 2 500 enemy paratroopers drop nine miles deep in U S territory. One man was killed and 39 injured in the mass jump as two explosions were heard aloft and A-bomb questions were avoided at briefing. Col J J Kelly said a regiment of the 47th Infantry division faced threats from paratroopers and frontline pressure.
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Fort Hood
Texas
82Nd Airborne Division
U. S
J. J. Kelly
British Magazine Claims Stalin Chronic Invalid
The Intelligence Digest reports Stalin is a chronic invalid and near death, citing a Russian source linked to the Soviet atom bomb tip. No independent confirmation, noting his last public appearance was January 21 at a Lenin memorial in Moscow.
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London
Russia
Joseph Stalin
Kenneth de Courcy
Moscow
Butte Weather Forecast Brings Snow Showers Across Regions
Considerable cloudiness persists with snow showers Wednesday and night, some mixed with rain during Wednesday afternoon. Temperatures show little change with melting surface snow expected. The forecast calls for a Wednesday high near 40 to 50 in western zones and around 35 to 45 east of the divide, with varied cloudiness and light precipitation possible elsewhere.
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School of Mines
Divide
Gruenther Sees Soviet Threat Diminished and War Avertable
Gen Alfred Gruenther testified on the administration's foreign aid bill saying the Soviet threat is much less now than a year ago and that World War III can be averted. He noted Russia might delay attacking Europe but cautioned against basing plans on that. He stressed Allied buildup under NATO discourages a Russian strike and that Soviet forces remain a formidable risk if war breaks out.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Alfred M. Gruenther
House Foreign Affairs Committee
U. S
Judd
R-Minn
Russia
Europe
United States
Eisenhower
Gruenther
Kremlin
Middle East
Mediterranean
Scandinavia
Infantrymen Stop Chinese Attack
Allied riflemen repelled a company size Chinese assault on the western front near Korangpo 29 miles north of Seoul as artillery fire intensified along the 155 mile front. Air and naval forces targeted rail lines and shore installations from Sunchon to Songjin with heavy operations around Panmunjom and Kojo.
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Seoul
Korea
Korangpo
Eighth Army
Yonchon
Pyongyang
Panmunjom
Artillardines
Sunchon-Wonsan
West Coast
Sunchon
Sariwon
Far East Air Force
Sea of Japan
Rochester
Lowry
Songjin
Manchester
Fox
Kojo
North Korea
Senator McCarran Refuses Interview With Newbold Morris
In Washington on March 25 Senator McCarran declares he will not grant an interview to government clean up man Newbold Morris who he calls wholly unfit for his job Morris had announced plans for a peace making interview with the senator.
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Morris Washington
McCarran
D-New
Newbold Morris
Morris
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