Ousted U S Attorney Heard in Probe
James A Mullally, suspended Justice Department lawyer, testified he received 750 in 1947 from a law firm of former DOJ lawyers for a Carnation Milk Company client in a case the FDA was pursuing. He said the payment was a gift not payment for services. He also recounted a 500 loan from Washington attorney Deorsey to pay dues after recommending dismissal of a war fraud case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
James A. Mullally
Justice Department
Gordon L. Eakle
Irving Goldstein
Edward J. Hayes
Carnation Milk Company
Food and Drug Administration
Mullally
House Judiciary
James P. McGranery
Leo Deorsey
Deorsey
Subcommittee
Goldstein
San Francisco
Vincent A. Kleinfeld
James M. McInerney
Kleinfeld
Carnation
McInerney
Bonner Opens His Campaign in Butte
Gov. John W. Bonner launched his Montana gubernatorial bid in his birthplace Butte. The Democrat toured the mining city meeting old friends and highlighting family mining roots, his university and law career, and service in World War II as he bases his campaign on his record of achievement for Montanans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Bonner
Treasure State
Montana
Butte
Bonner
Patrick Bonner
Philipsburg
Montana State University
Helena
Soviet Membership Proposal Rejected by UN Council
The United States and five other Security Council members rejected Russia's proposal for simultaneous admission of 14 applicants to the UN. They insisted each applicant be considered on its merits, delaying new members this season. Soviet Delegate Malik warned the West could take the proposal or see no admissions.
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United Nations
N. Y
United States
Security Council
Russia
Jacob A. Malik
Warren R. Austin
Seoul
Korea
U.P
U. S
Boxer
Navy
Cmdr
Ward S. Miller
Santa Rosa
Calif
Miller
63Rd Corsair
Air Force
Neighbor Boy Sets Two Children Afire Tragedy in San Antonio
In San Antonio an 11 year old neighbor boy doused siblings Lindsey Cunningham eight and Mary Louise twelve with kerosene and ignited a paper torch. The attic blaze killed the two children and left Esther 11 with critical burns while Ruth 22 helped try to halt the attack. The parents Jessie and Cunningham were away at work during the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Lindsey Cunningham
Mary Louise
Esther
Jessie Cunningham
Ruth
Lindsey
Action on Airport Recommendations Urged by Truman
President Truman ordered immediate action on a long range program to reduce air disaster risk and speed passenger shuttling between cities and airports. The Doolittle commission urged closer airports within 40 minutes of cities and safe zoning with clear land beyond runways.
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Washington (P
Truman
White House
James H. Doolittle
Tokyo
Unidentified Sub Report Probed Off Alaska
The Navy investigated reports of unidentified submarines near Alaska after a Nome sighting rumor. Officials said no conclusive findings were made and no further action planned. The probe noted a contact by detection gear but no visual submarine sighting and did not rule out Soviet patrols.
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Washington
Navy
Alaska
Nome
Alaskan
Kamchatka Peninsula
Dairen
Yellow Sea
Siberian
Reds Blast Boatner in Tokyo War Crimes Charge
Peiping Radio, monitored in Tokyo, called Maj. Gen. Haydon L. Boatner a war crimes target and branded him a hangman who was promoted for slaughtering prisoners. The Communist broadcast cited his Far East departure as evidence supporting indictment.
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Tokyo
Haydon L. Boatner
Far East
Peiping Radio
Kose Island
Reds Stop Traffic Berlin Frontier Crossings Closed
East Zone police closed three frontier crossings between West Berlin and the Soviet zone on Wednesday. West Berlin police reported the action to separate the city from its surrounding area.
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Berlin
Communist East Zone
People’s Police
West Berlin
Soviet Zone
US Bombers Attack Changjin Plant in North Korea
U S superforts from Okinawa hit the Changjin hydroelectric plant under overcast skies with radar bombs. FEAF reported no Red opposition and returns, while weather and a sea breeze storm affected operations on the Korean front.
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Seoul
U. S
Okinawa
Changjin
North Korea
Far East Air Forces
FEAF
Tokyo
Red Radio
Peiping
People's Forces
Sea of Japan
Reports Progress in Coal Talks
Washington reports progress in hard coal labor contract talks with John L. Lewis pressing for a large increase in the 30 cents a ton royalty paid to the United Mine Workers welfare fund. The hard coal fund is near depletion while a separate bituminous fund holds about 100 million dollars. About 20,000 UMW miners stay idled in southeastern Kentucky and northeastern Tennessee as spokesmen offer no comment.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers Union Welfare Fund
UMW
Kentucky
Tennessee
Union
Post Falls school trustee election ends in tie
In Post Falls Idaho two voters cast ballots Tuesday for school district trustees a tie resulted. Incumbent S M Wollan received one vote while write in Eldred Hughes also received one. Hughes withdrew and Wollan was declared winner as the sole remaining candidate.
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Post Falls
Idaho
S. M. Wollan
Eldred Hughes
Wollan
Hughes
Eisenhower Presses South to Break Solid South Vote
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower urged Southern voters to abandon the Solid South mentality as he campaigned across Arkansas and other southern cities. He told a crowd of about 25 000 in Little Rock that evidence shows the South will decide the coming election by its own judgment.
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Little Rock
Ark
Dwight D. Eisenhower
South
Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Atlanta
Jacksonville
Miami
Tampa
Birmingham
Acheson Appeals to Mossadegh Over Oil Deadlock
Secretary of State Acheson told Prime Minister Mossadegh there are no booby traps in the British American oil settlement proposal and urged reconsideration of the fast rejection. He also previewed a forthcoming talk in Kansas City addressing GOP foreign policy attacks and praised efforts aiding Muslim pilgrims heading to Mecca.
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Washington
Acheson
Mossadegh
Iran
Truman
Britain
Churchill
United States
Kansas City
Aly Maer
Lebanon
Mecca
Saudi Arabia
NATO to hold Paris meeting in mid-December
The North Atlantic Treaty Council will meet in Paris around December 15 to review western rearmament progress for 1952 and realign the 1953 to 1955 program. It will be the first top level conference since Lisbon, with cabinet members from 14 nations attending.
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Paris
U.P
North Atlantic Treaty Council
NATO
Lisbon
United States
Permanent Council
Japanese War Criminals Seek Release
At Sugamo prison in Tokyo a news conference by 18 18 prisoners claimed they were railroaded to prison and urged release. Spokesmen for B and C class criminals criticized the trials as illegal and politically motivated while Major War Criminals urged freedom under postwar treaties and allied consent.
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Tokyo
Japan
Sugamo
Haruo Fukuchi
Hong Kong
Fukuchi
Yokohama
Buichi Ono
Hideki Tojo
Okinori Kaya
Kaya
China
U.S
France
Britain
Netherlands
Australia
Howling Twister Moves Landward
A hurricane with winds reaching 110 mph moves northwestward toward the U S mainland. At midnight it was 680 miles east of Vero Beach Florida with forecast to continue 12 to 14 mph for 12 hours. Forecasters warned the approach could threaten the mid Atlantic coast and hoped a cold front would push it away.
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Miami
Fla
U.P
U. S
Miami Weather Bureau
Vero Beach
mid-Atlantic
Leonard Pardue
Pardue
Atlantic Seaboard
Rejected suitor admits schoolroom slaying in Illinois
Lawrence County Sheriff says a 25-year-old Gary Indiana Army veteran Charles Petr ach confessed to killing Georgina Lyon a 25-year-old high school librarian in an English room at a Lawrenceville high school. He described the shooting calmly on a wire recorder.
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Lawrenceville
Ill
Lawrence County
Garret Burgoon
Burgoon
Charles Petrach
Gary
Ind
Georgina Lyon
Clarence Lyon
Near
Madison
Torpedo explosion in Kure kills seven in dismantling incident
A World War II Japanese navy torpedo exploded during dismantling for junk in Kure. Seven people died, including junkman Seikichi Matsumoto his wife and 2 year old son, and an electrician nearby. Ninety two houses were damaged as a nearby home collapsed.
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Kure
Japan
U.P
Seikichi Matsumoto
Stevenson Plans Extensive Swing Into the South
Illinois Governor Adlai E. Stevenson is set for a broad campaign swing in the South. Advisers say Eisenhower’s Dixie campaign impact is not changing plans. Stevenson will address farm groups at the National Plowing Contest in Kasson, Minnesota, then Denver Friday night before a Wyoming Montana Pacific coast swing.
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Springfield
Ill
Adlai E. Stevenson
South
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dixie
Stevenson
Kasson
Minn
Eisenhower
Illinois
Denver
Wyoming
Montana
Pacific Coast
Butte Weather Forecast Highlights Coolth with Showers
Partly to mostly cloudy conditions across Montana with scattered thundershowers. Butte expects cooler Thursday afternoon, lows around 45, highs near 82, and light precip of about .01 inch. west of Divide partly cloudy with showers, east of Divide mainly cloudy with showers and local thunder showers, highs 70 to 90, cooler near Divide and extreme north.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
School of Mines
Montana
Divide
Dwyer Honored At Anaconda Copper Meeting
In Anaconda Montana a 450 strong crowd welcomed Robert E. Dwyer new president of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Cornelius F. Kelley praised Dwyer and reviewed the company’s 115 million dollar Montana expansion including 70 million spent or planned and 45 million for a Columbia Falls aluminum plant.
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Cornelius F. Kelley
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Robert E. Dwyer
Anaconda
Dwyer
Montana
Anaconda Company
Bob Dwyer
Reduction Works
Butte
Helena
Missoula
Great Falls
Great Mining
Kelley
Columbia Falls
Smel
Plans to Lift Clothing Ceilings Drafted By Officials
Washington reports that the inflation control program drafted orders to suspend clothing and shoe ceilings but delayed issuing them pending a nationwide survey of housewives' views. Price Stabilizer Tighe Woods will hold meetings, starting this weekend in Fresno, then across the South and East and a Texas town. Roger Putnam pledged strict and reasonable standards for any suspensions.
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Washington
U. S
Tighe E. Woods
Woods
Fresno
Texas
Roger L. Putnam
Sundberg Plumbing wins city sprinkler system contract in Butte
The Sundberg Plumbing and Electric Co. won a $3,880 sprinkler system contract for a park area in Block 4 of the Butte Development Addition after the lowest bid among four. The meeting featured a dispute with Butte General Laborers union rep R O Dickenson about clearance or referral cards for seven Corral city workers, with the mayor pledging action against noncompliant workers. The council set up 10 special improvement districts for street flushing sweeping and maintenance with front foot costs ranging from nine to 22 cents for flushing and sweeping and two to five cents for maintenance, and referred the cost estimates to the judiciary committee. A tract near Gold Travonia and Jackson streets was closed vacated and discontinued. Damages were approved for two property owners: Leonard Campanella $150 and A J Welch $100, with two more damage claims referred to the judiciary committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sundberg Plumbing and Electric Company
Butte
Walsh Engineering Company
Murphy Plumbing and Heating Company
Reardon Plumbing, Heating and Electric Company
Thomas R. Morgan
R. O. Dickenson
Butte General Laborers Union
Dickenson
City Corral
Flushing
Judiciary Committee
Gold, Travonia and
Jackson Streets
Gold Street
Travonia Street
Jackson Street
Travonia
Leonard Campanella
South Main
A. J. Welch
South
Idaho
Anaconda Company Expands Montana Mining Program Totals
The Anaconda Company reports postwar spending in Montana for its expansion drives. The Butte project has spent 30,500,000 dollars and averages 5,500 tons daily, with total expenditure to June 30 at 26,246,000 dollars. Officials say the programs support many communities and reflect faith in Montana's mining future.
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Ter
Greater Butte
Anaconda Company
Butte
Montana
Anaconda
Great Falls
Flathead Valley
Reserve Officers to Be Released Early by Army Plan
About 4 000 reserve officers involuntarily serving will be released three to four months ahead of schedule. The plan shortens tours of duty as many officers extend service and more candidates enter training corps. Medical and engineering specialists are excluded from the speed-up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Army
Reserve Officers Training Corps
United States
Truce negotiators recess again in stalled talks
Allied and Communist truce negotiators met for 52 minutes in Munsan and recessed once more until September 12. It marked the sixth consecutive short recess in the on again off again negotiations.
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Munsan
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Red Power Plant
R. E. Dwyer
Gen
Ike
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Associated Press
Max
Billings
Belgrade
C. F. Kelley
A. C. M. Company
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