Thousands Mourn Eduard Benes Ex-Czech Chief Dies
Thousands of Czechs filed past the coffin of former President Eduard Benes as his death on Thursday sparked a state funeral plan. Tens of thousands gathered at Sezimovo Usti and Prague, with traffic halted and mourners arriving by train, bus, and car. Benes will lie in state, then be buried Friday in the garden of his home.
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Czechoslovakia
U.P
Eduard Benes
Benes
Sexmovo Usti
Prague
Bohemia
Benes’ Villa
Helena Elks offer scholarships for Most Valuable Student
Helena lodge 193 BPOE will grant scholarships totaling 100 this school year as part of the Elks 17th annual Most Valuable Student contest. Local high school seniors and undergraduates may apply. Helena winners will advance to state and national levels with prizes from 800 to 100. Applications available at the Helena Elks club.
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Helena
Helena Lodge
BPOE
National Elks
Fred R. Little
Townsend
Boulder
Augusta
Carrol College
Helena Elks Club
Little Said
Four Snyder Trucking men arrested after assault on deputy
GREAT FALLS Sept -WU P Four Snyder Trucking employees Bernard Sweeny 27 Dick Franklin 25 Jack Smart 28 and Joe Maurantones 19 were arrested by Sheriff D J Leeper and held for Teton County Sheriff Ed Peterson on an assault charge Heavily involved in a Saturday night fight at a Dutton beer parlor deputy Dick Blye suffered serious injuries including the loss of an ear during the attack on Sunday morning drive to arrest the four men
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Great Falls
WU P
Snyder Trucking Company
Great Fall
D. J. Leeper
Teton County
Ed Peterson
Bernard Sweeny
Dick Franklin
Jack Smart
Joe Maurantones
Dick Blye
Dutton
Blye
Ford Reminds State of Constitution's 161st Anniversary
Gov Sam C Ford in Helena marks September 17 as the 161st anniversary of the U S Constitution adopted by the constitutional convention The constitution remains the sole solid political guide and hope for freedom loving people worldwide per his statement.
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State
Constitution
Helena
Sam C. Ford
Democratic Leader Blasts Congress in Labor Day Speech
Franklin Cross, Fraser-for-Labor Congress club secretary, denounced the 80th Congress in a Labor Day statement. He blamed Taft Hartley for weakening unions and accused Congress of driving up prices while urging support for Democratic candidate Willard E Fraser.
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Frank Cross
Fraser-ford Congress Club
America
Congress
Willard E. Fraser
Fire Threatens Foote Home in Helena
Firefighters responded to a blaze at the Tom Foote residence, 210 North Ewing, Sunday afternoon. Children playing at the rear started the fire in a back porch, causing only minor damage.
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Foote
Helena
Tom Foote
North Ewing
Funeral for Grace Thompson in Elliston Monday
Funeral services will be held at 3 PM Monday at the Chapel of Roses for Grace Thompson 176 of Elliston. Burial will follow at Forest Vale Cemetery.
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Helena
Chapel of Roses
Grace Thompson
Elliston
Forestvale Cemetery
72 Riders Vie for Dillon Rodeo Opening Thrills
Dillon Montana September 5 72 riders ropers and bulldoggers competed in the opening day rodeo with top horse and cow talent. Edwin R Buck of Butte announced the event as stands filled and skies dimmed from heat. Contenders named include Larry Finley Frank Duce John Reynolds Jim White and many more for the two day show and related children's party and parade.
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Shiteh
Edwin R. Buck
Butte
Larry Finley
Phoenix
Ariz
Mantellos
Frank Duce
Cardston
Alberta
John Reynolds
Melcose
Hess Allen
Pecos
Texas
Jim White
Carlsbad
N. M
Dell Haverty
Benson
Jim Hailey
Chandler
Billy Schalt
Arlee
Lee Gallahan
Umatilla
Oore
Horace Hitchcock
Fort Worth
Bob Duce
Rusty Houtz
Blackfoot
Idaho
J. Overman
Wolf Creek
Lavar Larson
Aliz
Bob Olsen
Clancy
Dick Pinkerton
Phoenix Ariz
Rafe Ingersoll
Polson
Dan Buck
Helena
Blaine Ramey
B. Hansen
Tom Howell
Melrose
Chandle
Tex Smith
Harrison
South Montana
John Waldermar
E. Blomquist
Norm Downing
Bob Dodd
Bob Johnson
Annmual Rodio
Heaverhead County
Elks Drum and Bugle Corps
Jefferson County
Livingston School Staffs Are Named For 1948-49 Term
Livingston announces the 1948 49 school term staff led by Superintendent C W Baum. Principals include Dorothy Johnson Ellen Wilson Ruth Somerville and Keith W Haines with grade teachers for each unit across North West East and Lincoln Side schools. Music supervisor Olive Cory and manual training supervisor Lou Scudder also named.
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C. W. Baum
Dorothy Johnson
North Side
Ellen Wilson
West Side
Ruth Somerville
East Side
Keith W. Haines
Lincoln
Helen M. Ferguson
Grace Habberstroh
Esther Sprattler
West Side School
Elizabeth Griffen
Lois Johnson
Mary Ostwald
Kathryn Springer
Cecile McLaughlin
Stella Cortese
Irma Marshall
Katherine Brockman
East Side School
Mildred Johnson
Marian K. Olson
Mary E. Roen
Anne Clark
Luella Weimer
Betsty DeAtley Sarrazin
Florence Pjelstad
Ruth J. Love
Myra King
Eris Larson
Hallie Stephens
Fraser
Joyce Goo- Glan
Cora Dahl
Mary Just
Ethel Allanson
Betty Ruth J Carruthers
Ellen Dillon
Edward Kastelitz
Margaret Boesen
Grace Krenz
Olive Cory
Lou Scudder
No Regrets From U. S. Ambassador
United States Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith’s name is absent from a Moscow condolence list published Sunday by Pravda and Izvestia. The list honors 31 diplomatic missions in Moscow that sent messages on the death of Andrei Zhdanov, with the British charge d’affaires also missing.
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Moscow
United States
Walter Bedell Smith
Andrei Zhdanov
Pravda
Izvastla
Gardens Frosted as Mercury Sags in Deer Lodge
The first frost of the season hit Deer Lodge gardens Saturday evening damaging beans and tomatoes. The fair commission noted the frost arrived after garden exhibits had been picked and entered for the county fair. Local briefs recount visits and travels of residents including the Lane family in Bozeman and engagements around the area.
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Deer Lodge
Deer Lodge Gardens
The
Fair Commission
Sam Lane
George
Bozeman
David Lane
Lane
Paul W. Orcutt
Powell County Fair
Orcutt
Norman Korn
Missoula
W. TY. Higgins
Deer Dodge
Ann Newton
Bieltenberg
Rock Creek Lake
Higgins
Butte
Boise Man Offers Eye for 10000 in Bold Trade
A 30 year old Boise man Dean Alvin Munshower proposed selling one of his two eyes to Gerbert Lark a 55 year old WWI veteran blinded in France. Larkin offered 10000 to regain sight. Munshower said his family needs the money.
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Boise
New York
Dean Alvin Munshower
Gerbert Lark
Akron
N. Y
Larkin
France
Munshower
Woonsocket
R. I
Victor St. Cyr
Two RAF Pilots Die in British Isles Air Exercise
Two Mosquito night fighters crashed killing RAF pilots during a joint British American mock air war over the British Isles. The fatalities lifted the total in the exercise to four as United States Sgt Walter Doyle Roquet of Tucson died after bailing from a burning B 29.
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British Isles
Germany
United States
Walter Doyle- Roquet
Tucson
Ariz
Maidstone
Kent
England
Northland
Southland
Woman Kills Husband Over Suspected Assault Plans
In Philadelphia a 26-year-old mother of two shot and killed her husband Leslie Reeves 29, a Chief Pharmacist's Mate, when he arrived home early Sunday. She feared her sister had been molested and told detectives I should have given him a chance to explain. The sister Peggy Mills 18 was with him. both were attending a naval hospital movie. The girlfriend asserts the husband had been pestering the girl since she came from Nashville three years ago. the couple's children Jeannette, one, and Beverly, three, were asleep during the shooting.
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Philadelphia
U.P
Dorothy E. Reeves
Leslie Reeves
Peggy Mills
Naval Hospital
St. Agnes Hospital
Nashville
Tenn
Jeannette
Beverly
Tito Man Appointed New Serb Chieftain
BELGRADE Yugoslavian Sept 5 Peter Stambolic head of the Yugoslav Peoples Front has been named president of Serbia in a reshuffle of top Communist leaders. He becomes head of the Republic after being federal minister of agriculture. He replaces Blagoje Neshkovic who becomes a vice premier.
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Yugoslavian
Peter Stambolic
Yugoslav Peoples Front
Serbia
Stambolic
Tito
Partisans
Blagoje Neshkovic
Marshal Tito
Sererated
An P
Target Island Is Bomb Cushion
Kahoolawe in Hawaii is described as an island of death after seven years of bombardment by ships and planes using nearly all munitions. Unexploded shells mark the barren 45 square mile patch west of Maui, deterring aircraft and ships and earning it a grim naval, Marine, and air force reputation as a major bombing target.
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Honolulu
Kahoolawe
Maui Island
Navy
Marine Corps
Air Force
Kahoolawe to be used as target range indefinitely
Military officials state Kahoolawe will serve as a target range indefinitely. Old-time Hawaiians describe Kahoolawe as a perpetual burden among the eight major islands, a forsaken stepchild cursed by history.
Wallace Keeps Eyes on Texas Campaign Tour
Henry A. Wallace of the Progressive party will extend his presidential bid into Texas amid a southern tour. The campaign aims for three to four weeks across the west, with Texas stops and appearances in the Midwest on the return toward Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Dublin Sunday Independent reports Eire to scrap the 1936 external relations act, severing ties with the British crown and declaring a republic.
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Texas
New York
Henry A. Wallace
Progressive Party
Midwest
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Illinois
Eire
Dublin
The
Dublin Sunday Independent
Wire
Film Notables Silent on Story of Dope
Hollywood story reports Robert Mitchum and Lila Leeds declining to tell a grand jury their side of marijuana smoking charges. The pair, along with dancer Vicky Evans and agent Robin Ford, were arrested last week in Leeds cottage. Narcotics officers found cigarettes smoked by all but Evans. Attorneys say they need time for thorough investigation before appearing before the grand jury.
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Robert Mitchum
Lila Leeds
Mitchum
Miss Leeds
Vicky Evans
Robin Ford
Miss Leed
Hollywood Hills
Miss Evans
Jerry Giesser
Grant B. Cooper
Giesler
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