Bloodless coup in Saigon places Bao Dai loyalist in control
General Nguyen Van Vy seized power in Saigon on Sunday declaring himself loyal to ex-emperor Bao Dai. He denounced the Revolutionary Committee and its government led by Ngo Dinh Diem as illegal, claimed he acted under threat, and moved thousands of troops to strategic points around the capital while Diem was reportedly held in the palace.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Nguyen van Vy
Bao Dai
Revolutionary Committee
Ngo Dinh Diem
Revolutionary Congress Committee
Diem
van Vy
Anaconda St Ann hospital to be dedicated Sunday
Anaconda St Ann hospital, a modern $1.6 million facility, will be dedicated at 2 PM Sunday with Bishop Joseph M. Gilmore presiding. The ceremony includes a cornerstone blessing, open house on National Hospital Day, and tours.
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St. Ann Hospital
Anaconda
Northwest
Joseph M. Gilmore
Helena
Seventh Street
Mary Alexine
Anthony Shields
Gilmore
Leonard Spraycar
Joseph O’donnell
J. S. O’sullivan
Knights of Columbus
St. Paul Church
Tan Hebron
Butte to Begin Polio Shots May 11 For 1st and 2nd Graders
Polio inoculation program for about 2500 Butte children in first and second grades will start on or about May 11. Two Salk vaccine doses will be given four weeks apart with a booster six months later, free through the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Volunteer doctors and nurses, led by Dr. R. C. Kane and Dr. William F. Antonioli, will administer. weeks of scheduling by Therese Quirk and local medical staff.
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Butte
Montana
R. C. Kane
William F. Antonioli
National Foundation For
Therese Quirk
Pitman-Moore
Indianapolis
Biologics Control Laboratory
National Institute of Health
Washington
Pitman-Moore Laboratories
Ohio
Kentucky
Missouri
Iowa
Nebraska
North Dakota
South Dakota
Wisconsin
Change mindset drives fashion and new wearables
Psychologists say women and youths believe new clothes alter personality and seek updates. The ad promotes quick earnings with jobs, selling unused items, and renting a spare room. It lists cheap items like a crib $25, a baby buggy $7, and a Hollywood bed trade offer, with a generic phone number.
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Hollywood
Threatened British Strike Called Off
Britain’s locomotive engineers and firemen called off their threatened strike after union leaders and railway management reached agreement Saturday night. The action would have paralyzed rail traffic across the British Isles and disrupted booming industry.
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London
Britain
British Isles
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen and Railway Management
Backfire on Cease-Fire Move by 12 GOP Senators
Twelve Eisenhower wing Republicans issued a statement backing efforts for negotiations with Communist China while reserving that Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists be represented if possible and that Nationalist forces remain mobile. Senators Allott Beall Bush Carlson Case Smith Cotton Duff Ives Rachel Payne Saltonstall also noted conditional collaboration with Nationalist China and potential direct talks with the Communists without harming Nationalist interests.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Republican Party
China
Sens
H. Alexander Smith
New Jersey
Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Sen. Knowland
California
Chiang Kaishek
Knowland
Senate Gop
Sens. Allott
Colorado
Beall
Maryland
Bush
Connecticut
Carlson
Kansas
Case
Smith
Cotton
New Hampshire
Duff
Pennsylvania
Ives
New York
Rachel
Payne
Maine
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Montana weather outlook for weekend with scattered showers
Mostly cloudy with scattered afternoon showers and a bit cooler Sunday. Sunday highs 58 to 75 across the state with west at 58-65 and east at 65-75, Sunday night low near 33. Saturday highs around 65, low 28, with west Montana partly cloudy Monday and cooler.
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Montana
Confidence in Polio Vaccine Rises in Nationwide Survey
A nationwide Associated Press survey shows state health officers strongly trust the safety of the Salk polio vaccine despite a Cutter Laboratory withdrawal being investigated. Public Health Service officials note calm public reaction and no hysteria, while experts review cases of polio after Cutter vaccine use. Jonas Salk and Dr. Thomas Francis participate in a two day conference assessing field trial results.
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Washington W
Associated Press
Jonas FE. Salk
Thomas Francis
University of Michigan
Bi-Partisan Oil Lease Study Favored in Montana
In Helena, Democrats and Republicans, led by Sen. Rex Hibbs, back a bipartisan committee to probe Montana oil leasing. Democratic chairman Toole and Republican chairman MacKay support forming a study group, with Gov. Aronson to nominate members. Senator Brewer notes the proposal continues.
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Senate Oils and Leasing Committee
Toole
MacKay
Shelby
Clyde Brewer
Russelshell
Hibbs
Oil Lease Meet Delayed by Board Members Absence
State Land Commissioner Lou E. Bretzke said it is doubtful the Land Board will meet before its May 11 session to authorize earlier oil and gas leasing of state school lands. Republican Gov. Aronson, board chairman, is in Washington for a governors conference and the remaining four members are scattered, delaying action on a 1953 act.
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Helena
Lou E. Bretzke
Land Board
Bretzke
J. Hugo Aronson
Aronson
Washington, D. C
White House
Sam W. Mitchell
Mary M. Condon
Public Instruction
Miles City
Montana Library Assn
Arnold H. Olsen
Butte Records Warmest Day in Six Months
Butte posted its warmest day in over six months with a high of 65 that Saturday. It marked the second time this year temperatures reached 60 or higher, three degrees above the April 9 reading, and the warmest since Oct. 21, 1954 when 67 was recorded, 191 days earlier.
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Butte
Farmers Battling Dust Storms Still Confident
Editor notes Ovid A. Martin AP farm expert, who has studied Kansas droughts since the 1930s, reports hopeful farmer attitudes despite dry weather in parts of the Great Plains after a tour with Secretary of Agriculture Benson.
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Ovid A. Martin
Associated Press
Great Plains
Kansas
Benson
Faith in Plains Farmers Persists Amid Drought
Washington reports on Secretary Benson's motor tour through dust storms as six straight years of drought press on central and southern Great Plains. Farmers face crop failures, debts, and reduced herds, yet keep faith in the region's future and resilience despite hardships.
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Washington
Great Plains
Benson
Adenauer and Pinay settle many West Germany France issues
Bonn report says Chancellor Adenauer and French Foreign Minister Pinay announced a settlement of outstanding questions between West Germany and France at a joint news conference after long talks. They discussed the Saar issue and planned further talks in Paris as West Germany nears sovereignty next week.
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Bonn
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Antoine Pinay
West Germany
France
Saar
Adenauer
Paris
West European Union
NATO
Britain
New Foreign Aid Chief Is Named
President Eisenhower selected John B. Hollister of Cincinnati to head the new International Cooperation Administration as the FOA dissolves on July 1. The ICA will be a semiautonomous unit within the State Department overseeing the economic side of foreign aid while the Defense Department keeps military aid. Harold E. Stassen remains FDA chief and will assist on disarmament plans. Hollister, former Ohio congressman, now leads the Hoover Commission and is senior partner at Taft Stettinius and Hollister.
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Washington
Eisenhower
John B. Hollister
Cincinnati
White House
Hollister
International Cooperation Administration
ICA
Foreign Operations Administration
FOA
State Department
Defense Department
Harold E. Stassen
FDA
Hoover Commission
House
Ohio
Taft, Stettinius and Hollister
Red Shore Guns Chiang Planes Keep War Going
In Formosa Strait Red shore guns shelled Amoy and Nationalist planes attacked Red ships in Amoy Bay as Washington and New Delhi eyed a cease fire. Nationalists warned Nehru and Bandung talks while Peiping and North Korea urged dialogue with the United States amid tense Far East signals.
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Taipei
Formosa
Formosa Strait
Washington
New Delhi
Amoy
Quemoy
Amoy Bay
U. S
India
Nehru
Krishna Menon
Peiping
Bandung
Peiping Radio
United States
Red China
Reds
Taiwan
Formosan
Far East
Pyongyang
North Korea
Rodong Shin
Cold War shifts from trenches to a new war of maneuver
Washington reports the cold war has moved into maneuvering rather than trench stalemates. Dulles travels to Europe aiming for an Austrian peace treaty. peace talks and potential troop pullbacks surface. Eisenhower and Zhukov exchange letters as Red China signals openness. The piece analyses evolving Soviet tactics since Stalin’s death and postwar Franco German accords, noting ongoing US allied survival stakes.
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Washington
Europe
Dulles
Red China
Far East
Moscow
Eisenhower
Marshal Georgi Zhukov
May Day in Butte Dollar Day offers bargains
Butte merchants headline Dollar Day on Monday May 1 with widespread bargains across merchandise. The edition promotes exciting offers and urges all shoppers in the trade area to take advantage of the gala event limited to May 1.
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Butte
Saigon Congress Deposes Bao Dai and backs Diem
A revolutionary congress in Saigon took temporary control of South Viet Nam after deposing Bao Dai as chief of state. It denounced Bao Dai as a puppet, proclaimed support for Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, and announced a new government while awaiting a favorable time to present it. Diem’s forces claimed victory over the Binh Xuyen rebel group amid two days of civil conflict. The congress met at City Hall and trampled Bao Dai’s portrait, as Gen. Nguyen Van Vy was pressured to declare support for the revolution.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Revolutionary Congress
Bao Dai
Ngo Dinh Diem
Diem
Binh Xuyen Society
Congress
Revolutionary Committee
Nguyen van Vy
Montana Conservation Council Concludes in Dillon
Conservationists adopt eight resolutions urging roadside parks private land owner cooperation in hunting and fishing rights road construction soil conservation beetle control and forest health. Delegates thank Blair Hutchinson WMCOE and Rush Jordan for convention support and facilities.
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Montana Fish and Game Dept
Mike Throckmorton
Boise
Idaho
William B. Morse
Portland
Ore
Frank Kops
Great Falls
Walt Staves
Polson
Bruce Orcutt
Miles City
State Highway Commission
Blair Hutchinson
Rush Jordan
WMCOE
Falls Five Stories Lands on Pillow
A 15 month old boy in Harlem survived a five story fall when a window ledge collapse dropped him onto a pillow he dragged to the edge. He clutched the pillow as he fell and landed on it, the pillow cushion helping break the impact. Doctors reported his condition satisfactory.
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New York
Gerald Myers
Harlem
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