All-Out Battle for Changchun Nears Imminent Clash
AP dispatches report a decisive push by Chinese First Army units from Kangchuling toward Changchun within 28 miles of the Communist capital. Tu Limin and Hsiung Hsi Hui press advance along five routes while massing Communist forces retreat to defend Manchuria.
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Changchun
Kangchuling
Manchurian
Tu Li-ming
Szepingkai
Hsiung Hsi-hui
Marshall
Nanking
Peiping
Antung
Manchuria
Chuchiatien
Liaoyuan
Shwangshan
Yitung
Hsian
Szepingkal
Council Refuses to Drop Iranian Case at UN
The United Nations Security Council refused to drop the Iranian case after Iranian Ambassador Hussien Ala questioned Soviet troop withdrawal claims. He said a message from Premier Ahmed Qavam was not a categorical statement and alleged continued Soviet interference. The council adjourned discussions but kept the case on the agenda indefinitely, with a 9 to 1 transcript note and reports noting Polish delegate Icar Lange amid the proceedings.
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New York
United Nations Security Council
Hussien Ala
Ala
Council
Ahmed Qavam
Iran
Icar Lange
Palestine Admission Plan Endorsed by U S Government
The United States official policy endorses immediate admission of 100000 Jewish refugees to the Holy Land, following Truman's approval of the Anglo American Palestine committee's plan. The White House rejected Arab protests and stated consultations with Arab nations were not required before decisions on this report.
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Washington
U.P
United States
Anglo-American Palestine Committee
Holy Land
State Department
Truman
Great Britain
Bill Approved to Create Pen International Alaskan Highway Commission
The House rules committee approved Rep Mansfield D Mont a bill to establish an international Alaskan highway commission. The measure would coordinate with a Canadian group to study highway routes linking the United States with northwestern Canada and Alaska.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
Mansfield
D-Mont
Pen International Alaskan Highway Commission
United States
Alaska
New Girls Central High School to Be Constructed
Plans for a new Girls Central High School in Helena are under way with construction to begin after a site is secured and materials arrive. The project, estimated at 350000 dollars, was announced at the school’s commencement by Msgr. W P Joyce.
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Girls Central
Msgr
Joyce
Joseph M. Gilmore
Helena
J. A. Rooney
Girls Central High School
Boys Central High School
Irish Christian Brothers
Butte
Connally Warns Against War and Entanglements
Senator Tom Connally of Texas urged bipartisan support for a strong foreign policy to keep the United States out of entanglements. He warned the world faces renewed threats in Europe and the Far East and criticized Russia’s veto power while backing a no appeasement stance alongside Arthur Vandenberg’s report on the Paris peace conference. He said writing peace treaties must be done by all nations that helped defeat the Axis.
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Washington
U.P
Tom Connally
Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Wedneday
Europe
Far East
America
Britain
Russia
Connally
Senate
United States
Arthur H. Vandenberg
R-Mich
Paris
Diploma Day At Girls Central High School 1946
Reverend Bernard J. Topel of Carroll College Helena delivered the commencement address to the 1946 Girls Central High School graduates in the Fox theater. Rt Rev Msgr William P Joyce vicar general of the Helena diocese awarded diplomas to 57 students. Principal J A Rooney introduced speakers and led exercises as graduates listened to the warning that Satan seeks ruin in the world today.
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Bernard J. Topel
Carroll College
Helena
Girls Central High School
Fox Theater
William P. Joyce
Diocese of
Carroll
Vinson vows fight against postwar fleet cuts
Chairman Carl Vinson said the House naval affairs committee will oppose moves by the appropriations committee to reduce the postwar fleet from 1,079 ships to 965. The panel approved 4.64 billion dollars for the Navy for the coming year to fund postwar plan No. 2 with 291 active ships, 42 in reserve and 632 inactive.
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Washington
U.P
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
House Naval Affairs Committee
House Appropriations Committee
Appropriations Committee
Navy
Jap Royalty Stripped of Privileges Under Allied Order
An Allied directive strips Japanese princes and princesses and 14 Imperial-related families of special privileges and tax immunity. The order excludes Emperor Hirohito's immediate family and curtails royal support from the emperor. In Tokyo, May 22, a new cabinet under Premier Shigeru Yoshida vows to tackle food shortages and constitutional revision, seeking broad cooperation amid leftist opposition. Hirono Wada becomes agriculture minister as Japan faces a grave food crisis.
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Tokyo
U.P
Imperial Household
Hirohito
Japan
Shigeru Yoshida
Yoshida
Hirono Wada
Quiet Restored in Iran Affair
Calm returned to the Azeri border as Azerbaijan absolved Premier Ahmad Qavam Es Sultaneh of responsibility for the fighting. A joint Azerbaijan Iran commission investigated the clash near Sain Qaleh, about 100 miles south of Tabriz, and reported all hostilities ceased.
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Tehran
U.P
Azerbaijan
Ahmad Qavam Es Sultaneh
Sain Qaleh
Tabriz
Two Die In Wreck Near Ellensburg Washington
Two bodies recovered from a small airplane wreck about twenty miles northeast of Ellensburg identified as Oscar R. Koehner 31 Sprague Washington the pilot and Ralph E Hicks 28 Tacoma.
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Ellensburg
Wash
Here
Gus Lindeman
Oscar R., Koehner
Sprague
Ralph E. Hicks
Tacoma
Butte Area Weather Forecast Thursday Outlook
Mostly cloudy with light rain Thursday forenoon and warmer conditions in the afternoon. Highs range from 45 to 65 across regions with showers and thunderstorms west of the divide and intermittent rain east of the divide. Temperatures near schools and airports clock upper 40s to mid 50s with trace to .18 inches precipitation reported.
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Divide
Memoirs of Konoye claim FDR knew war was certain before Pearl Harbor
The Pearl Harbor inquiry released Prince Fumimaro Konoye's memoirs claiming President Roosevelt knew war with Japan was certain a month before the December 1941 attack. Konoye contends Hirohito knew of military plans and that US officials doubted last chance for peace, detailing prewar diplomacy and the 1940–41 foreign talks.
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Washington
U.P
Pearl Harbor
Prince Fumimaro Konoye
Roosevelt
Konoye
Hirohito
Douglas MacArthur
Prince Konoye
United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Walsh
Mary Knoll American Catholic Institution
Yosuke Matsuoka
Hull
Cordell Hull
Nomura
Saburo
Kurusu
America
Tojo
Japan
Konove
Col. Iwakura
Army Ministry
Tadao Ikawa
Tokyo
Fiery Cross Found on the USC Campus
On May 22 a crude alcohol soaked fiery cross was found before the University of Southern California administration building and the Ku Klux Klan label K K K appeared in five places. Police attributed the act to a juvenile prank after a court revoked the Klan's California charter and barred issuing a new one.
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Los Angeles
U.P
University of Southern California
Ku Klux Klan
California
Alfred E. Paonessa
Stimson Says Roosevelt Could Edge Nation Into War If Allies Attacked
Former Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson testified to the Pearl Harbor committee that Roosevelt could have led the United States into war before Pearl Harbor if Allied Pacific possessions were attacked. He said U S policy is to defend itself and its possessions and that the President executes that policy.
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Stimson
Roosevelt
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Henry L. Stimson
Congressional
Long Island
Sen
Homer Ferguson
R-Mich
Ferguson
United States
Malaya
Dutch East Indies
Indo-China
Congress
Activians to Convene in Butte Next June
More than 300 delegates from Calgary Lethbridge Spokane Missoula Anaconda and Butte will gather in Butte for the annual district convention June 7 8 and 9. Paul Golden chairs the general committee and Rev N C Hoff will be the principal speaker. Registrations begin Friday night June 7 with the district governor vote Saturday morning and the installation banquet Saturday night followed by closing sessions Sunday.
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Calgary
Lethbridge
Canada
Spokane
Missoula
Anaconda
Butte
Pinsen Hotel
Paul Golden
N. C. Hoff
Immaculate Conception Church
Cartoonist Wins Default Divorce
In Los Angeles on May 22 Bill Mauldin a 24 year old Pulitzer prize cartoonist of World War II was granted a default divorce from Norma Jean Mauldin 22 on grounds of cruelty. Superior Judge Carl Stutsman approved the decree after Mauldin testified his wife interfered with his work. He withdrew adultery charges after his wife agreed not to contest the lesser charge.
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Los Angeles
Bill Mauldin
Norma Jean Mauldin
Carl Stutsman
Mauldin
Railroad wage plan split unions in Truman proposal
President Truman offered a wage rise and rule changes to end the railroad dispute. Carriers and 18 brotherhoods accepted the package, while engineers and trainmen found it unfavorable. Two unions postponed verdicts until Thursday morning, keeping the strike threat alive as the fact finding board suggested a smaller wage increase and left most rule changes for later negotiation.
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Washington
Truman
A. F. Whitney
Charles G. Ross
Whitney and
Krug Hopes to End Mine Contract Dispute by Weekend
Secretary of Interior J A Krug said the government aims to reach a new contract agreement with John L Lewis by Saturday to avert a soft coal shutdown next week. He warned success depends on United Mine Workers leadership persuading miners to work after the two week truce ends.
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Washington
J. A. Krug
John L. Lewis
Krug
United Mine Workers
Lewis
I Chose Freedom Chapter in Kravchenko's Memoir
The Montana Standard presents a fifth chapter of I Chose Freedom by Victor Kravchenko an account of his break with the Soviet regime. He recalls purge commissions and the atmosphere of public confession as a stark indictment of Lenin and Stalin era oppression.
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Montana Standard
Victor Kravchenko
Kravchenko
Kremlin
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U. S
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Qavam
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