Grade School Track Meet Opens With Stellar Show
Clark park hosted opening events as grade school athletes posted near record efforts. Longfellow led with 91 points in the opening day heavyweight division while St Patrick’s and Webster showed strong early form in a crowd the meet’s largest in 39 years.
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Eddie
Eddie Stretch
Emerson
Butte Exchange Club
Clark Park
Melvin Ford
Longfellow
Gary Cushing
St. Patrick
Butte
Ivan Oswald
St. Patricks
John Herzog
Herzog
Oswald
Sovsoucs
Washington Aeeweenene
Immaculate Ne Seveee
St. Lawrence
Webster Weeee
Emerson Monroe
St. Joseph
Ford Workers Strike Halts Major Auto Plant Operations
About 65,000 Ford workers walked off two Detroit plants at noon triggering a nationwide impact as talks with the CIO United Auto Workers collapsed. The strike targets Rouge and Lincoln-Mercury plants over speed of production with contract talks due May 16.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
CIO
United Workers
Ford
Big Rouge
UAW
Walter Reuther
Chrysler
Rouge
Lincoln
Local 600
International Executive Board
Wife Ignores Body of Husband for Months in Southend Tenement
In Boston on May 5, police found the body of 53 year old James Walsh after neighbors complained of a odor. Walsh’s wife told officers they were heavy drinkers and she slept in the apartment every night since his death. She could not say the cause and said they lived on an insurance policy. The body was given to a medical examiner.
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Boston
Southend
James Walsh
Leonard Lilly
Walsh
Lilly
Cancer Campaign Show Tonight at Butte High Auditorium
Bar Nothin Players present Grandpa's Longjohns a vaudeville revue to raise funds for the Butte chapter of the American Cancer Society. Tickets from 1.20 lower floor 60 cents balcony sold at the high school Spillums Gamers and the Chamber of Commerce.
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Montana
Butte High School
Butte
American Cancer Society
Chamber of Commerce
Sweet
Girl 13 Confesses Drowning Seven Year Old Boy
In Joliet Illinois a 13 year old girl named Diane Allen confessed to choking and drowning seven year old Charles Johnson in a drainage creek. She told deputies she felt an urge to kill and used a maroon scarf to strangle him before holding him under water.
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Joliet
Ill
Roy Doerfler
Doefler
Diane Allen
Charles Johnson
Diane
Johnson
U S Reds Warned in 46 War Near Says Witness
Thomas Younglove, an FBI undercover agent, testified that in October 1946 Ralph Shaw reported a visit by a personal representative of Marshal Stalin who warned that war was near and U S communists should prep for underground activity. He linked a gas light union move to his reduced Communist activity in 1947.
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New York
Marshal Stalin
Communist National Board
United States
Thomas Younglove
St. Louis
FBI
Communist Party
Missouri
Party
Ralph Shaw
Younglove
Shaw
National Board
Communist National Committee
Defense
Harry Sacher
Gaslight Workers Union
Mechanics
Attempt on Egyptian leader Gouda. attack fails
Cairo dispatch reports Hamid Gouda 65 president of the chamber of deputies escaped unharmed after three hand grenades were hurled at his car as he traveled to Maadi. Security forces exchanged fire with attackers. motive and identity not disclosed. Gouda also is Saadist vice president amid postwar Egyptian politics. A separate fire in Moro destroys grain elevator, risking $200,000 in wheat.
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Cairo
Egypt
Hamid Gouda
Chamber of Deputies
Gouda
Maadi
Ibrahim Abdel Hadi Pasha
Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha
Saadist
Wafd
Butte Weather Forecast: Clear to Partly Cloudy and Warmer
Butte expects clear to partly cloudy skies and a warming trend on Friday with a low near 26 and a high around 60. School of Mines records a high of 51 and a low of 27, while the airport shows a high of 53 and a low of 29. West of the divide stays fair with increasing high clouds north and little temperature change, highs 55 to 65. East of the divide clears to partly cloudy with gradual warming, highs 60 to 70.
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School of Mines
Snow Strands 300 Cars Along U S 30 in Wyoming
Nearly 300 automobiles and trucks were stranded by drifting snow on U S 30 from east of Rock Springs to Wamsutter in a 60 mile stretch. Temperatures were near freezing at Rock Springs and much colder at higher elevations. Road crews plowed but could not clear the route Thursday night amid heavy drifts and high winds.
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Rock Springs
Wyo
United States 30
Wamsutter
Wyoming
Weather Bureau
Cherokee Hill
Rawlins
Bitter Creek Divide
Divide
Truman to Carry on Fight Against TH Act
President Truman vowed to press for repeal of the Taft Hartley law and said Democrats should back a platform pledge. He hailed Wednesday’s House action on the Wood bill as a chance to shape an acceptable measure and indicated no guaranteed concessions.
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Truman
Washington
U.P
Congressional Democrats
House
White House
Wallace Attacks Atlantic Treaty During Senate Hearing
former vice president Henry A. Wallace accused the State department of withholding Russia’s offer to lift the Berlin blockade to block the North Atlantic treaty. He urged delaying action until after the Big Four meeting May 23, warning it could be the last chance for a peaceful settlement with Russia.
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
State Department
Russia
Berlin
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Connally
Dtexas
Vandenberg
Michigan
Wallace
United States
Reds Launch Attacks Near Shanghai Might Mean Drive Against Great City Begun
Communists attack northwest and southwest of Shanghai with several thousand troops as Red columns push into southeast China. The garrison reports limited gains near Kashing and Tai chang while Red forces threaten lifelines toward Hankow.
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Shanghai
China
Hankow
Kashing
Taichang
Chiang Kai-shek
U.P
Asia
Quinsan
Gunmen Hold Up Pay Roll Car in Cleveland Heist
Five masked attackers used two autos to halt a Lincoln Heights Savings and Loan payroll car in Cleveland, taking $25,000 in cash. They damaged windows, grabbed seven bags of money, and fled in a second vehicle. Bank VP William G. Ziemba pleaded with the robbers as teller Anton Bizga was cut by glass.
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Cleveland
U.P
Lincoln Heights Savings and Loan Company
William G. Ziemba
Anton Bizga
Western Powers Aim for Democratic Germany in Big Four Talks
Berlin reports say Western leaders pledged a democratic Germany as a condition for any accord with the Russians at the Big Four foreign ministers conference. The four powers agreed to lift the Berlin blockade by May 12 and to meet in Paris May 23 to discuss Germany, Berlin currency and related issues.
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Berlin
Germany
Ernest Bevin
Brian Robertson
Truman Welcomes Berlin Blockade End Nuclear Peace Talks
President Truman expressed happiness over the lifting of the Berlin blockade and said the agreement came through normal diplomatic channels not direct talks with Stalin. He noted the Big Four foreign ministers will handle Germany talks in Paris May 23 and that Austria could be included. Bevin pledged Western resolve in Germany as the four powers plan talks.
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Washington
U.P
Truman
Berlin
Josef Stalin
Russia
Stalin
State Department
Michael J. McDermott
Philip C. Jessup
Dean G. Acheson
Paris
Germany
Austria
W. John Kenny
Navy
Kenny
United States
John L. Sullivan
London
Ernest Bevin
House of Commons
Bevin
Great Britain
France
Soviets Allow Potatoes to Move to Western Berlin
Soviet occupation authorities announced on Soviet radio that potatoes may now be transported from the Soviet to the Western sector of Berlin, marking the first easing of a six month ban on food movement. Berlin residents had relied on dehydrated vegetables from airlifts.
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Berlin
U.P
Radio
Airlift standby tied to Russia Berlin plans delay
Washington dispatch says the airlift fleet and leadership may stay on standby in Europe until Moscow shows no intent to again block Berlin. Air Force officials reacted after the four power accord reached yesterday, signaling continued vigilance by air, naval and military planners.
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Elton C. Fay
Washington
Europe
Russia
Berlin
Air Force
Navy
Solons Reject Series of Amendments
The Senate passed a bill authorizing 300 million dollars yearly in federal grants for teachers' salaries and school operations. Passage followed rejection of amendments on church state issues and limits to public schools. Funds are allocated by state preference, with poorer states receiving more.
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Washington
Senate
House
Donnell
R-Mo
Cain
McClellan
D-Ark
McMahon
D-Conn
Truman
Taft
Ohio
Wherry
Congress
Johnson Urges Preparedness Against Concentration of Power
Defense Secretary Louis Johnson at the Chamber of Commerce address warned against power seeking and merger mad businessmen he said threaten the economy. He urged funneling defense orders to small business as a second line of defense and cautioned that concentrated corporate power could endanger freedom. Hermann W. Steinkraus was elected president of the chamber.
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Washington
Louis Johnson
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Johnson
Herman W. Steinkraus
Bridgeport, Conn
Four Die in Ammunition Plant Explosion in Staffordshire
Four men were killed and a fifth injured in an ammunition explosion at the Royal Ordnance factory in Swynnerton Staffordshire. The workers were loading boxes of ammunition into railway cars when the blast occurred.
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London
Ministry of Supply
Royal Ordnance Factory
Swynnerton
Staffordshire
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Ore
Sherman County
Associated Press
Max
Min Billings
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Soviet Union
Britain
Moscow
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