Johnson Says U S Defenses Okeh Despite Ike Warning
Johnson affirmed U S defenses are adequate after a White House meeting with Truman contradicting Eisenhower who warned defenses are below safety levels. The defense secretary noted Jessup remains ambassador at large, and Early will stay on as deputy secretary of Defense while Gabe Pullman term extended. Gray at Detroit warned against overemphasis on disarmament and supported Eisenhower to expand defense input.
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Key West
Fla
Johnson
Mongay
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Truman
White House
Naval Base
Philip D. Jessup
McCarthy
R-Wis
State Department
Eisenhower
Columbia University
Jessup
University
Asia
Far East
United States
Stephan T. Early
Pullman Company
New York
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gen
Senate Appropriations Committee
Congress
Washington Girl Gassed Killers Hunted
Joann Dewey an 18 year old Portland hospital worker was snatched in Vancouver Washington seized by two men. A University of Oregon crime pathologist testified she died from acute carbon monoxide asphyxia before her body was dumped in the Wind River four miles east of Stevenson. Police mobilized all offices to track the kidnap slayers, while new details suggested she was slugged and possibly sexually mistreated before death.
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Vancouver
Wash
U.P
Pretty Joann Dewey
Wind River
Howard L. Richardson
University of Oregon Medical School
Clark County
Joann
Richardson
Stevenson
Portland, Ore
Butte Girl State's Top Legion Orator
Colleen Tierney of Butte won the Montana American Legion oratorical contest and earned the right to regional competition in Pocatello Idaho. Ed Gibson of Great Falls finished second, Tom Biedrzycki of Miles City third, and Fred Kraemzl of Bozeman fourth. Each contestant spoke a 10 minute oration on Privileges and Responsibilities of an American Citizen and gave shorter extemporaneous talks on a Constitution article.
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Kalispell
Colleen Tierney
Butte
American Legion
Butte Weather Forecast Shows Cool, partly cloudy Tuesday
Partly cloudy and cool conditions prevail in Butte with a Tuesday high near 40 and a Tuesday morning low around 16. Period temperatures from Sunday midnight to Monday 5:30 pm show highs around 33 at the School of Mines and Airport stations with lows near 11 to 18 and a trace of precipitation. West of Divide expect variable clouds and scattered snow showers with highs 35 to 40, while east of Divide highs 30 to 40.
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School of Mines
Divide
Foreign Aid Bill May Be Pared
Washington March 27 Republican policy makers in the House pressed to cut the 3.37 billion dollar foreign aid bill now under debate. A linked domestic spending reduction was considered. The House may take up 29 billion dollar general expenses bill later in the week as Senate debate continued on Kerr natural gas legislation with a Wednesday vote planned.
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Washington
House
Senate
Federal Power Commission
Row Over Leopold's Return Delays Belgian Defense Talk
Brussels March 27 Prime Minister designate Albert Devere won Lib Liberal backing for a national solution to King Leopold's recall. The crisis risks hampering Western Europe defense planning as he pushes an ultimatum to Social Christians and Socialists to accept Leopold's short term return or face a May general election. Leopold would abdicate to his 19 year old son Baudouin.
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Brussels
Belgium
Albert Devere
Leopold
Europe
Devere
Prince Baudouin
Russia Charges United States Won Formosa Backed by China War
Russia walked out of two United Nations groups over American and Japanese flyers in a Nationalist raid on China. It charged a secret US Chiang Kai-shek pact to take Formosa if needed and attacked the US Chinese policy amid Eleanor Roosevelt clashes in the human rights commission.
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N. I. Klimax
Kremlin
United Nations
Transport and Communications Commission
Klimov
New China
United States
Chiang Kai-shek
Formosa
Supreme Court upholds Dennis contempt conviction
The Supreme Court on Monday affirmed Eugene Dennis's contempt of Congress conviction for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The ruling allows government workers on the jury, in a 5 to 2 decision, while detailing other actions the court took that term. Justice Black criticized loyalty purge trends, and Justice Douglas returned after recovery from a prior accident.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
Eugene Dennis
United States
Communist Party
Dennis
House un-American Activities
New York
Justice Black
Douglas
Great Lakes
Baltimore
Young Progressives
Maryland
Department of Justice
Louisiana
Texas
Smiliar
California
High Court
Tidelands
Promises of Civic Center Backers Cited at Hearing
The district court hearing on an injunction to halt Butte’s civic center project included testimony by Anthony Mattule and others about promises made during promotion. Witnesses claimed funds would cover both outdoor and indoor facilities though initial estimates were higher, with a plan to solicit support from local groups and petitions for a bond vote.
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Civic Center
Butte
Anthony Mattule
Joe H. Sullivan
Loretta L. Sullivan
Emmett P. O'Brien
J. G. Link
Cahill - Mooney
Reardon Plumbing
Sundberg Electric
Ellis Paint Company
Link
Mr. Matule
Walter Barnard
E. R. Blinn
James V. Keyes
Tim J. Sullivan
Sullivan
Matule
Barnard
Clark Park
Mr. Barnard
Elephant to Die for Killing Boy at Circus
Dolly the elephant, responsible for the death of five year old Edward Schooler, will be destroyed by overdose in a dug pit. Ringling Brothers official Henry Ringling North announced the execution will occur before the circus leaves winter quarters, within a day or two.
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Sarasota
Fla
Dolly
Edward Schooley
Henry Ringling North
Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus
North
Teachers Fight Retirement
The Butte school board education committee set a special meeting with the Butte Teachers' union to discuss dismissals of 20 teachers aged 65 and the union's stance on equal pay for married and single women teachers. The session followed a protest over the two week notice of nonrenewal for 65 year olds and noted ongoing negotiations on salaries and terms.
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Butte School Board
Butte Teachers’ Union
Trustees of
School District No. 1
Montana
The
Married Women Teachers Organization
Dorothy Evans
Evans
Bridges Claims Master Spy Aids Stalin in State Dept
Senator Styles Bridges alleges a hidden master spy in the State Department aided Soviet aims and cites Alger Hiss and Henry Julian Wadleigh as examples. He urges a Senate subcommittee to call Secretary of State Dean Acheson and vows to press for answers to what he calls a grave threat to U.S. foreign policy.
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Washington
U.R
Styles Bridges
Rn.h
State Department
Stalin
Bridges
Senate
Dean Acheson
Acheson
United States
Soviet Union
Alger Hiss
Henry Julian Wadleigh
Hiss
Wadleigh
Republic
Russia
Atlantic Defenders Meet to Plan Western Europe Defense
Chiefs of staff from the Atlantic defense alliance met in The Hague with United States Gen. Omar Bradley reviewing detailed plans for defending western Europe. The military committee session began Monday with a defense ministers meeting scheduled for Saturday. Louis Johnson will represent the United States.
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the Hague
Netherlands
Atlantic Defense Alliance
United States
Omar Bradley
Western
Europe
Military Committee
Louis Johnson
Truman Denies Loyalty Files To Senate Communist Hunters
White House says President Truman will not release State Department loyalty files to a Senate panel. FBI Chief Hoover and Attorney General McGrath urge against disclosure, warning it could jeopardize informants and aid foreign spies. Lattimore and Brunauer cases dominate testimony and planned April 4 hearing.
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Key West
Fla
Truman
State Department
Senate
White House
Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Congress
Hoover
United States
J. Howard McGrath
United Press
McGrath
Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Owen Lattimore
Lattimore
Senate Committee
Afganistan
United Nations
Associated Press
Esther Caukin Brunauer
Former GI Foils Bank Robbery With Fake Grenade
A 36 year old tile setter attempted to rob Houston's National Bank of Commerce using a wooden fake grenade. Teller Harry Rodgers a former infantry sergeant recognized it as safe and with a bank book keeper and customer helped capture the man at the entrance. Police charged Paul Patton with attempted robbery by assault.
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Houston
Texas
National Bank of Commerce
Jesse H. Jones
Harry Rodgers
Paul Patton
Patton
Justice of the Peace
W. C. Ragan
Rodgers
Flying saucer sighted near Air Force veteran backyard
Veteran pilot Bertram A. Totten reports seeing an aluminum colored disk about 40 feet across and 10 feet thick while flying over Fairfax County Virginia near Washington. He describes a spiral ascent with vapor trails and speeds "several hundred miles per hour faster" than his own, near the Pentagon. The Air Force denies existence of such objects though it investigates similar reports.
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Washington
U.P
Air Force
Bertram A. Totten
Fairfax County
Totten
Pentagon
Chicago and
Southern Airlines
Jack Adams
G. W. Anderson
Mrs. Roosevelt
Storm wrecks sweep across two thirds of nation deaths rise
A cyclonic spring storm swept two thirds of the country bringing high winds snow and hail. At least 16 people died as the system moved from the plains to the East Coast. Dust storms lashed Kansas and damage occurred in Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama. In Jackson Mississippi a fertilizer plant was damaged and sulphuric acid spilled injuring an employee.
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Chicago
Plains States
Canadian
Gulf of Mexico
Kansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Jackson
Miss
Ohio Valley
Salina
Kan
Kansas City
Reds Reportedly Fail in Invasion
Taipei dispatch reports three waves of Chinese Communist troops attacked Hainan island near Linkow but were repelled with heavy casualties. Central News Agency cites over 4000 Communist deaths and large ammunition captures in a failed landing by Lin-piao's 118th division.
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Taipei
Formosa
U.P
Hainan
Red
Lin-piao
4Th Army
South China
Hoshow
Linkow
Central News
Prowler Suspected in Park Street Fire Damage
Butte fire crews put out a blaze in a residence at 427 East Park after it damaged two chairs and a mattress. Police said a bathroom window was broken and tracks in the snow suggested a prowler entered the home Monday night.
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Butte Fire Department
East Park
Butte
Sergeant Goes on Trial April 6
The hearing on a murder charge against Air Force sergeant Lyle Howard Buswell was set for April 6. He is accused of strangling Staff Sgt. Fairy E. Decker, 43, in the women’s Air Force during a Saturday attack at Hamilton Field.
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San Francisco
Air Force
Lyle Howard Buswell
United States
Francis St. J. Fox
Hamilton Field
Fairy E. Decker
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