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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1950
Page
1
A Trans-World Airlines four engine Constellation crashed in the Egyptian desert west of the Nile delta. Fifty five people died, including 23 Americans and an Egyptian film star. The airliner went down 65 miles northwest of Cairo near Etay Baroud. Wreckage strewn over 500 yards.
Cairo Aug 31. Among the American citizens killed in the Egyptian desert airliner crash is Lt. Melvin O Hanson United States Air Force of Terry Montana stationed at Dahran Saudi Arabia en route to Rome.
A Bombay to New York flight from Cairo crashed soon after takeoff, leaving 48 passengers with eight nations represented and many victims badly charred. The reporter notes a popular Egyptian actress Camelia among the dead as the wreckage burned extensively.
Dozens of events lure Montanans for the last long holiday weekend. A picnic near the Canadian border, the state tennis tournament in Billings, a regatta in Whitefish, and golf in Kalispell headline. Mourning dove season opens in eight counties with limits.
Senate House conferees reached a compromise on a bill to draft doctors and dentists through age 50 and cleared emergency legislation for final floor action. The measure targets men trained at government expense or who deferred training to learn at their own expense during World War II to persuade about 5,000 doctors and 3,000 dentists to volunteer for active military service.
Reports from Tokyo say Mrs. Ann Wallace Suhr of Holdenville Oklahoma may be the so called Seoul City Sue. A Suhr sister in Holdenville believes she is the only American left in Seoul after the Communist takeover and suspects she is broadcasting under duress.
Dr. James Boyd of the U S Bureau of Mines told the American Mining congress there is no necessity for a premium price plan for metals. He cited the World War II stockpiling and war defense act as providing loans and procurement contracts to spur production, with possible payments above market price if needed. He also referenced mining law revisions and public land use as topics.
Seventeen hundred children set a record at Columbia Gardens on the last children’s day season closing with no injuries or calls to the first aid station. Supt. Ted Beech praised cooperation and good behavior while Bert Riley lauded the youths’ conduct.
The SS Mary Luckenbach was seized by the government in San Francisco as a Coast Guard board investigated the collision with the Navy hospital ship Benevolence. United States Marshal Edward J. Carrigan posted notices and took custody pending the outcome of a $14,000,000 marine libel suit or bond acceptance.
A compromise bill granting President Truman war-time powers to speed production and curb inflation was approved by a House-Senate conference committee. The act would expire various powers by June 30, 1952 with specific dates for wage price controls credit restraints and defense tools. The emergency contracts power ends June 30, 1951.
President Truman for a second time reiterated that he plans no cabinet changes with Defense Secretary Johnson and Secretary of State Acheson. He addressed requests from Rep. Tau rello and noted Johnson has not lost public confidence. He also touched on Korea, Red China, the Seventh Fleet, and a plan to disperse government offices from Washington with a $139.8 million initial phase.
Strikes by CIO IUE workers shut six GE plants and threatened more after collapsed negotiations in New York. About 20,000 idle in Lynn and Holyoke mass plants, 4,000 in Syracuse, with 9,500 total GE workers affected. Production of TV receivers and military instruments halted.
1399 men were examined in August at Montana's main Army and Air Force recruiting and induction center in Butte. Of those, 827 were called by selective service for pre induction, 174 volunteers, 350 Army reservists and 48 reserve officers tested. 107 did not report. 601 of the 827 were acceptable. 226 were rejected for prison, mental, psychiatric or physical reasons. 174 volunteers, 139 qualified. Noted reexamination results and no social disease rejects.
Jarl old Shepherd a 16 year old Helena high school student drowned at Foys Lake five miles west of Kalispell after an attempted 175 yard swim from Pleasure Island to a small island. He went under about 60 feet from his destination as bystanders watched. Four youths, including 14 year old Alouise Smith, tried to reach him but could not.救
The House approved by voice vote a five year armory construction program worth up to 250 million dollars. The bill lets the federal government contribute funds to build and equip new armories or expand existing ones. States may share the cost, with further legislation needed to provide the cash.
In Olympia Washington this week a boy was born to Mr and Mrs Ritchie Zumwalt preserving a family line that had not produced a girl since 1838.
House Armed Services Chair Vinson said the draft will extend to married men with dependents under 26, soon. Officials at Selective Service declined to set a date while Congress passes family allowances bills.
U S delegate told the Security Council a United States fighter may have strafed a Manchurian airstrip by mistake on August 27. War ren Austin proposed an immediate U N commission to investigate and assess damages and offered to pay fair damages as determined.
Gulf hurricane mauled Panama City with 200 to 300 cottages damaged and bayside homes flooded. A dock was torn away as high tides hit Mobile Pensacola St Marks. a Birmingham truck driver died after contact with a power line. A new Atlantic hurricane, over 110 mph, churned west northwestward about 10 to 12 mph near Antigua.
Butte forecast expects continued fair and warmer with Friday low near 44 and Friday afternoon high near 88. Overnight and daytime readings vary by location from 43/85 at the Airport to 50/85 at the School of Mines. West of Divide remains fair and warm with highs 85 to 95, while east of Divide stays fair with 85 to 95 but cooler in the northeast 75 to 85.
A Butte merchant Joseph T. Thomas and his daughter Rita arrived in New York a flight ahead of an airliner that later crashed in Egypt’s Sahara. Relatives, including daughter Mercedes McCarthy of 521 East Park, learned of their safety by phone. They had spent a year in Syria visiting Thomas’s mother and briefly traveled by ship before flying back.
North Korea launches a massive assault along a 47 mile Naktong front with 150 000 troops and 30 000 tanks aiming to break the Pusan Taegu corridor. US Second and 25th divisions face repeated pressure as reinforcements rush to the lines.
United States 25th division troops counterattacked through Haman at the southern battlefront in Korea. American forces clashed with enemy near the city, with reports suggesting Haman may have fallen to the Reds. Earlier, US 35th regiment knocked out three Russian-made tanks during assaults near the area. Swinton reported fresh infantry supports to embattled Negro troops near Haman.
Congress approved a living allowance bill for enlisted service families, sending it to the President. Allowances range from 85 to 165 dollars monthly, more than 50 percent higher than WWII, retroactive to Aug. 1. Checks will be mailed after clerical work, with deductions from the service member’s pay. The act may prompt Truman to lift the draft ban on married men aged 19 to 25.
Washington officials say the Defense department will regularly disclose total American casualties in Korea, likely once a week, in addition to existing individual casualty lists. The policy, last in effect Aug 7, aims to inform the public and counter enemy propaganda.
U P report from Korea describes a night assault on the Naktong front with torchlight formations in V and O shapes. Lt Terry Hume Davis recounts groups marching toward the river, artillery suppression, and a midnight Communist crossing repelled by American tanks artillery and mortars.
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