Five teens held after fatal Butte beating case
Five teenagers aged 16 to 18 are under investigation after the Friday night beating of William Charles Sagar, 47, a tavern operator, who died Saturday morning from a fractured skull. One youth faces potential manslaughter charges, another an assault count, while three others remain in juvenile delinquency custody.
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William Charles
Bill) Sagar
Sagar
Community Memorial Hospital
Galena
Montana
Butte
Sta
Tion
Nick Rotering
Frank Sullivan
R. E. Sagatovic
Sullivan
Konen
Galena Street
Sugar
Popejoy Case Goes to Jury in Twin Bridges Slayings
In Virginia City Montana Popejoy faces combined first degree murder charges for the November 25 shootings of Bill and James Seyler near a Twin Bridges service station. The jury of seven men and five women received the cases after final arguments as Judge Duncan outlined possible verdicts and sentencing.
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Virginia City
V.P
Sam Popejoy
Popejoy
Bill
James Seyler
Margaret Seyler
Bill Seyler
Philip Duncan
Kwilty
Seyler Brothers
Twin Bridges
Duncan
County Atty
Robert Webb
Webb
New Atomic Information Restrictions Proposed by Congress
Representative W Sterling Cole chair of the Atomic Energy Committee announced additions to a draft bill tightening dissemination of atomic information. The measure tightens penalties for unauthorized disclosure including newsmen and officials and supports Eisenhower’s plan to share information with allies while enabling private operation under new controls.
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Washington
W. Sterling Cole
Congress
Cole
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
Eisenhower
Girl Dies In Accidental Bag Tragedy In Milwaukee
Milwaukee authorities report a 2 year old girl suffocated after pulling a plastic bag over her head while her caregiver Debra Lee Stolarczyk searched a bureau drawer during nap time. A fire department rescue squad attempted revival but failed.
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Milwaukee
Debra Lee Stolarczyk
Truman urges Ike to end hysteria over communism
Former President Truman asks President Eisenhower to assert executive authority and curb anti communist fears. He warns about Congress expanding power and urges the President to defend fair play and decency, stressing the need for the President to be master in his house and to keep the executive branch responsible.
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New York
Truman
Eisenhower
Legislative Branch
GOP Leaders Move to Shorten Army Probe by Voicing McCarthy
Senate leaders clash over a plan to cut public hearings short. Dirksen and Bridges back a motion to place Sen. McCarthy on the stand and extend behind closed doors testimony from McCarthy aides, while Democrats led by McClellan oppose, insisting all principals be heard in public.
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Washington
Army
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Dirksen
Bridges
Senate
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Stevens
Roy M. Cohn
John G. Adams
Mundt
R-Sd
Illinois
McClellan
Arkansas
Joseph N. Welch
Ste
Butte Jubilee Queen candidates announced for Diamond Jubilee
Twenty eight young women from Butte were named as candidates for queen of the Diamond Jubilee Celebration to be held June 27 through July 5. The list includes Marlene Brookbush, Jean Burke, Olive Ball, Darien Carkeet, Delores Clark, Helen Cox, Betty Lou Dahl, Kathleen Egan, Ruby Eggebrecht, Joyce Freseman, Donna Flint, Beverly Glover, Mary Pat Grady, Patti Hunen, Patty Kelly, Stella Milovanovich, JoAnn McCarthy, Patsy McDonald, Sue O Keefe, Marjorie Polkinghorn, Ardith Rusk, Betty Shrader, Flora Schwartz, Sheila Sullivan, Rena Tardiff, Gaylene Tracer, Carole Truzzolino and others listed with addresses. (Continued Page 12)
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Butte
Queen of Butte
Marlene’ Brookbush
Rocker
Jean Burke
Paxon Ave
Olive Mae Ball
West Silver
Darien Carkeet
W. Quartz
Delores Clark
Lewisohn
Helen Denise Cox
W. Gold
Betty Lou Dahl
S. Gaylord
Kathleen Egan
W. Park
Ruby Eggebrecht
Joyce Freseman
S. Excelsior
Udonna Flint
Caledonia
Beverly Glover
Adams
Mary Pat Grady
Farrell
Patti Janhunen
Walnut
Patty Kelly
W. Diamond
Stella Milanovich
Oregon
JoAnn McCarthy
Patsy McDonald
W. Granite
Sue O’keefe
Waukesha
Marjorie Polkinghorn
S. Washington
Ardith Rusk
Argyle Hotel
Betty Elizabeth Shrader
N. Idaho
Flora Schwartz
W. Broadway
Sheila Sullivan
Rena Tardiff
Texas
Gaylene Tracer
California
Carole Truzzolino
W. Mercury
Rev
Britain Ends Ration on Butter Fats and Cheese
London reports butter fats and cheese will be sold unrationed for the first time in 14 years. Prices rise with brand names returning, butter up to 4 shillings 3 pence a pound, margarine varying from 1 shilling 4 pence to 1 shilling 9 pence, current margarine grade at 1 shilling 6 pence. Meat and bacon remain rationed with promises to free them by July 3.
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London
Britain
Churchill
Young Gilbr/Eighteen Month Old Drinks Gasoline
Eighteen month old Roland Bratland drank gasoline at his Livingston home. He received treatment at a Livingston hospital Friday and suffered no serious effects.
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Livingston
Roland Bratland
Roland
96 Year-Old Butte Woman Embraces Mothers Day Fame
Grandma Barbara LeSage soon to be center of attention as family celebrates Mothers Day at 1010 Nevada Ave. She has 5 children, 16 grandchildren, 40 great grandchildren and 3 living great great grandchildren. Relatives say she keeps count and remains modest while enjoying visitors from a large clan.
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Butte
Barbara LeSage
Grandma LeSage
Nevada Ave
Pittsburgh Faces Transit Tieup as Strike Threat Looms
Pittsburgh, nation’s steel hub, braces for a crippling transit tieup as trolley and bus workers threaten to walk out at 4 a.m. Sunday. Mayor Lawrence and leaders push for talks, but none are scheduled amid a city already strained by a 23 week old department store strike.
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Pittsburgh
David L. Lawrence
Lawrence
Pittsburgh Railways
Page seeks Congress seat in Montana First District
Missoula Republican Winfield E. Page, a five term Montana House member from Missoula County, announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Congress in the First District. Page notes his earlier 1952 nomination bid and his role on the Little Hoover Commission, which produced 51 recommendations with most enacted into law, including a state personnel act establishing equal pay for equal work.
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Missoula
Winfield E. Page
Montana
Missoula County
Congress
Wellington D. Rankin
Page
Little Hoover
Billings High School
Montana State University
University of Minnesota
Mayor Sullivan Won't Seek Reelection
Mayor Tim J. Sullivan says he will not run again next year after a review of his first year in office. He urges Butte and Silver Bow residents to study city and county government, reduce duplication, and push for economy and better services through coordinated operations.
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Tim J. Sullivan
Butte
Sullivan
Silver Bow County
Silver Bow
Siamese Twin Girls Born in Tennessee
Siamese twin girls joined at the head were delivered by Caesarean section at John Gaston Hospital in Memphis. Doctors say the infants are in good condition and show normal X-ray results in unrelated aspects. The parents are Mr. and Mrs. Louis Miller, with a 23-year-old mother and a 24-year-old father recently released from the Army.
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Memphis
Tenn
John Gaston Hospital
Brodie
Chicago
Louis Miller
McCarthy Attacks Benson Policy in Wisconsin Speech
Senator Joseph McCarthy criticized Secretary Ezra Benson's farm policy in Athens Wisconsin urging 100 percent parity for farmers to avoid a low mood. The remarks came during a Saturday appearance linking policy to economic sentiment for rural voters.
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Athens
Wis
U.P
Joseph McCarthy
Ezra Benson
Dulles Opens Talks on Southeast Asia Anti Red Coalition
Secretary of State Dulles begins diplomatic talks to form a Southeast Asian alliance with the United States Australia and New Zealand to block Communist expansion in Indochina. He met with New Zealand's Leslie Knox Munro and discussed fast tracking a coalition pact amid Geneva talks and Dien Bien Phu fallout. Senator Knowland warns time is running out to defend Asia.
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Washington
Dulles
National Security Council
Indochina
U. S
U.S
New Zealand
Leslie Knox Munro
Munro
Australia
Roger Makin
Southeast Asia
Security Council
White House
Eisenhower
Defense
Wilson
Dien Bien Phu
Viet Nam
Bidault
Britain
France
United States
Philippines
Thailand
Laos
Cambodia
Burma
Pakistan
Capitol Hill
Sen. Knowland
California
GOP
Pacific
Asia
Labor unions urge federal spending program and tax cuts
AFL CIO and United Mine Workers lead a volley for public works, housing, and emergency measures to spur jobs. They cite a seasonal jobless drop but argue no real improvement exists and call for tax relief, credit readjustment, and higher unemployment aid as Eisenhower weighs a public works plan.
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Washington
Eisenhower
AFL
CIO
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers Union
CIO Steelworkers
United Mine Workers Executive Board
Congress
Bidault Seeks Immediate Truce and Free Elections in Indochina
In Geneva France called for an immediate cease fire in Indochina after Dien Bien Phu fell. Georges Bidault urged a halt in fighting, with free elections to follow under international guarantee. Vietminh reps demanded admission of Communist Laos and Cambodia, while Molotov backed their stance.
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Indochina
Bidault
Viet Nam
France
Pham van Dong
Red China
Vietminh
Laos
Cambodia
V. M. Molotov
U. S
Walter Bedell Smith
Molotov
Britain
Anthony Eden
Parisians Jeer Premier and Defense Minister During Armistice Day
Parisians jeered Premier Joseph Laniel and Defense Minister Rene Pleven on Armistice Day as French Union soldiers were marched to prison stockades from Dien Bien Phu. Stones struck Communist offices in Paris and a Communist newspaper plant in Nice amid bitter protest over the distant defeat. Police lined the Champs Elysees as tensions rose.
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Paris
Joseph Laniel
Rene Pleven
Dien Bien Phu
Nice
Champs Elysees
Fate of French General Unknown After Dien Bien Phu Fall
Reports from Saigon indicate French planes saw columns marching north from Dien Bien Phu and Gen Henri Navarre said they were likely French Union troops captured after the fortress fell to Vietminh. It remained unclear if Brig. Gen Christian de Castries was among them. Navarre ordered air drops of food and medical supplies as the siege concluded with continued fighting at Isa belle.
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John Roderick
Saigon
Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Henri Navarre
Christian de Castries
France
Genevieve de Galard Terraube
Navarre
Isabelle
Weather Forecast With Showers and Temperature Outlook
Considerable cloudiness with a few showers or thundershowers Sunday through Monday. Expected high 65 to 72 west of divide, 60 to 70 east of divide. Sunday night low 40 to 42, period highs 67, with little temperature change Saturday. The table notes maximums for 12 hours and minimums for 18 hours ending 5 30 p.m. Saturday.
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Divide
Britain Orders Out Soviet Diplomats for Espionage
Britain expelled two Soviet military attaches Ivan Pupyshev and Andrei Gudkov after an MI5 probe found they abused diplomatic status by seeking military secrets. The diplomats, married with children, had been in London since 1951. The move, announced by Selwyn Lloyd, followed a Foreign Office briefing and a Tass dispatch praising Churchill.
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London
Britain
Foreign Office
Ivan Pupyshev
Andrei Gudkov
Red Air Force
Tass
Churchill
Russia
Selwyn Lloyd
Jacob A. Malik
M15
Secret Service
Pupyshev
Gudkov
Malik
Kensington
Kremlin
Moscow
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