General Marshall Leads Nation In Memorial Services
General George C. Marshall addressed Memorial Day services urging continued support for the United Nations as a forum where words replace bullets. Speaking beside Arlington National Cemetery’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, he warned another war would hollow out generations and urged restraint while keeping diplomacy alive. He noted UN reforms may be imperfect yet valuable for open discussion, and cautioned against dissolving the UN to form a like minded bloc.
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George C. Marshall
United Nations
Arlington National Cemetery
United States
Marshall
Senate probes Miami Gold Coast gambling links
Washington officials said reports are flowing into the Justice Department on ties between Gold Coast gambling houses and racketeers in New York Chicago and California. Senator Hunt and Chairman Kefauver said hearings revealed Frank Erickson Frank Costello and Joe Donis in New York and Mickey Cohen in Los Angeles. Data will aid the 150000 Senate inquiry into nationwide crime and gambling as U S attorneys gather material from 93 offices and enforcement agencies.
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Washington
Office
Pride
Gold Coast
New York
Hicago
California
Senate
Hunt
D-Wyo
Frank Erickson
Newark
Uthern Florida
Miami
Jami
Efauver
D-Tenn
Special Note
Kefauver
Ickson
Frank Costello
Joe Donis
Los Angeles
Mickey Ohen
Senatequiry
Kefauver Committee
Justice Department
United States
Florida
Ortherners
Gamling Houses
Merath
Customs and Post Office
Secret Service
Burglar Steals 1000 Women’s Names and Details in Long Beach
Long Beach Calif May 30 a burglar stole an entire file of 1000 women's names and addresses telephone numbers physical specifications and income from an introduction service. The men's list was untouched.
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Long Beach
Calif
Navy adds turbo prop planes with atomic bomb capability
The Navy plans to install a 5,500 horsepower turbo-prop engine from General Motors Allison division in two carrierbased attack planes and a tested 60ton seaplane. The system uses twin turbines with tailpipe thrust and can cruise on one engine to save fuel. The Air Force considers turbo props to extend B47 jet bomber range as developments unfold.
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Washington
Navy
Air Force
Allison
General Motors
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation
San Diego
Defense Department
Memorial Day address honors war dead in Butte parade
Gov. John W. Bonner spoke at Soldiers Memorial monument in Butte on Memorial Day urging democracy through action and peace. A large parade preceded the ceremony with military color guard, civic leaders, and many veterans groups participating as residents observed the holiday with cemeteries and churches filled.
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Butte
John W. Bonner
Bonner
Soldiers Memorial Monument
Wyoming Street
Butte High School
William Daley
Jack Duggan
M. D. O'Connell, Jr
American Legion
Floyd Stewart
Veterans of Foreign Wars
al Ayers
Henry Lawton
United Spanish War Veterans
Henry W. Lawton
Butte Mines
Montana
Ladies Auxiliary
Girl Scouts
Camp Fire Girls
Silver Bow Post
The
Serbian Sisters
Girls Central
Improved Order of Redmen
Non Partisans Lead in Korean Election
South Korean voters shifted away from major parties in Tuesday's national assembly election. Early returns show independents leading while party veterans trail, leaving the assembly with many new members of uncertain allegiance. The lineup will be unclear until the session starts June 19 and President Syngman Rhee's control remains undetermined.
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Seoul
National Assembly
Syngman Rhee
Missouri River Yields Body of Missing Man
Wesley Bredemus, 35, who had been missing for 14 days, was found in the Missouri River a quarter mile below Giant Springs by Great Falls fishermen Charles Stockton and Harry Mason. Deputies identified him from a Social Security card. a passerby had seen a man struggling near the 10th Street bridge on May 16, the date of his disappearance.
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Great Falls
U.P
Wesley Bredemus
Missouri River
Giant Springs
Charles Stockton
Harry L. Mason
Minneapolis
10Th Street
Bredemus
Four American Soldiers Stoned in Helmstedt German Riot
In Helmstedt Germany on May 30 thousands of anti Communist Germans attacked West German youths returning from a Berlin Whitsun rally. They burned blue shirts and flags of the FDJ and clashed at the railway station. Police reported multiple assaults as townspeople rounded up and threatened the marchers before a police rescue.
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Berlin
Unter den Linden
Helmstedt
Germany
Helmstedters
Free German Youth
FDJ
Ruhr
Spring Planting Nears Completion in Montana Fields
Helena May 30 A federal weather and agri economics bulletin says favorable conditions this week will help Montana farmers finish crop planting. State temps will swing from 33 to 45 overnight and 55 to 68 by day with 3/16 inch or less rain, heaviest east of the Divide. By week end spring wheat 92 percent sown oats 86 barley 89 sugar beets 85 potatoes 75 flax 50. Farmers thinning beets in Billings and Missoula areas. Milk River and lower Yellowstone hold most undisturbed plantings. Summer fallow under way. Eastern two thirds have adequate soil moisture for germination. western counties drier. Wind dried some fields. Range grass good. Sheep shearing underway. Cherry trees bloom in Lake county. Ravalli county reports frost damage last week.
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Helena
Montana
Weather and Agricultural Economics Bureaus
Continental Divide
Billings
Missoula
Milk River
Yellowstone
Lake County
Ravalli
Beaten Woman May Yet Name Attacker
A Connecticut divorcee, Harriet Scoville Higginson, is slowly regaining memory after a 1944 home invasion in Cornwall where she was beaten nearly to death. A psychiatrist says hypnotism has prompted flashes of memory that may eventually identify her attacker.
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New York
Connecticut
Harriet Scoville Higginson
Cornwall
McCarthy seeks questioning of Amerasia six in State dept probe
Senator McCarthy urged Senate investigator Tydings to question the six Americans tied to the 1945 Amerasia affair. He argued the case is a keystone to exposing Communist influence in the State department and pressed for sworn testimony from John Service, Philip Jaffe, Kate Mitchell, Mark Gayn, Andrew Roth, and Emmanuel Larsen.
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Washington
McCarthy
Amerasia Magazine
State Department
Wisconsin Republican
Tydings
Senate
Amerasia
John S. Service
Philip Jaffe
Kate Mitchell
Mark Gayn
Andrew Roth
Emmanuel S. Larsen
Gayn
Miss Mitchell
Roth
Jaffe
Larsen
Service
Foreign Service Officer
New York
Frank Bielaski
Office of Strategic Services
OSS
FBI
United States
Butte Weather Forecast Wednesday Expect Fair Skies
Butte mostly fair with little temperature change forecast for Wednesday. Wednesday’s high near 67 and low around 29. Montana readings show west of Divide increasing cloudiness to 60 to 70, east of Divide fair and warmer 60 to 70.
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Divide
Holiday Auto Deaths Set New Memorial Day Record
National toll of accidental deaths during the Memorial holiday rose to 504 as the four day weekend ended. Highway crashes caused 315 deaths, drownings 75, and other mishaps 114. Ned H Dearborn of the National Safety Council blamed slam-bang driving and indifference for a Memorial day massacre. State death totals by category and state are listed.
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Ned H. Dearborn
National Safety Council
Dearborn
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
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Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
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Nevada
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New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
At Least Two Die In Montana Auto Crashes
Memorial day accidents claim at least two lives in Montana. Claude Ziegler eighteen of Glendive dies from car crash near Glendive before Monday. Margaret Anne Bull Child two of Browning dies after being thrown from a rollover near Browning Sunday. Montana traffic deaths reach fifty two for 1950, up from fifty last year.
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Montana
Claude Ziegler
Glendive
Margaret Anne Bull Child
Browning
Ziegler
George Bull Child
Margaret Anne
Demonstration May Be Preview of Border Attacks
Tokyo May 30 Four United States soldiers were stoned at a Japanese Communist rally. Military police arrested eight demonstrators after street melees. The scene marked the first Communist violence against U S troops in Japan and suggested possible border-attack tensions. About 5 000 showed up, far short of Communist claims of 106 000. Clashes occurred at Imperial plaza and later Hibaya park as MPs escorted detainees and restored order with a dozen Japanese Communists clubbed. None seriously hurt.
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Tokyo
United States
Japan
Peoples’ Plaza
Hibaya Park
Arms aid request of 1.225 billion for non Communist nations
President Truman will ask Congress for about 1.225 billion dollars in arms aid for non Communist nations for the 1951 fiscal year starting July 1 1950. The package targets nine Atlantic pact countries with most funds for Britain France Italy Belgium the Netherlands Luxembourg Norway and Portugal plus Greece Turkey Iran Korea and the Philippines. Portugal is included for the first time to protect coastlines and Azores bases. Officials cite balanced collective forces and note 90 percent of last year’s 1.2386 billion has been allocated or committed by June 30.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Norway
Neumark
Portugal
Greece
Turkey
Iran
Korea
Philippines
Azores
London
Fire evacuates 400 patients from Sonoma state home
A fire of undetermined origin in the basement of the Administration building at the Sonoma state home in Eldridge California prompted the evacuation of nearly 400 aged and infirm patients from the upper two stories on Tuesday. Firefighters and staff conducted the evacuation without major incident as the blaze was contained.
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Eldridge
Calif
U.P
Sonoma State Home
Peace Conference in Chicago Urges End to Cold War Through UN
Chicago May 30 The mid-century conference for peace with 1200 delegates urged ending the cold war via negotiations within the United Nations. Dr Willard Uphaus led speakers blaming both powers for aggression and vowed not to whitewash either side while noting Communist participation.
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Conference For Peace
Chicago
Russia
United Nations
Trygve Lie
Lie
Russians arrest Allied patrol on Autobahn near Berlin
On May 30 Russian forces detained a 10-man western Allied military police patrol on the Autobahn outside Berlin then released them shortly after. The group, including four Americans, four Britons and two French, were taken to Soviet headquarters at Babelsberg and released without explanation.
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Berlin
Babelsberg
Acheson to Report to Nation Today
Secretary of State Acheson will address Congress and the nation from the Library of Congress at 9:30 a.m. MST to summarize the London talks among the Big Three ministers and the North Atlantic Council. He is expected to urge stepped up efforts to halt Communism and his remarks will be broadcast on ABC, CBS, and NBC.
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Washington
Acheson
Congress
North Atlantic Council
London
Library of Congress
ABC
MBS
NBC
House
Senate and Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees
Truman
Trygve Lie
United Nations
European Nations Agree to Pool Coal and Steel Wealth
Paris May 30 Six European nations Belgium Luxembourg Italy The Netherlands France and western Germany agreed to pool coal and steel wealth for the common good. Delegates will meet next month to work out details and Britain has not yet accepted the plan.
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Paris
Belgium
Luxembourg
Italy
Netherlands
France
Germany
Britain
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Rockefeller Memorial Chapel
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