Government Readies Twin Bill Opening Assault on Inflation
The government prepares for Monday ahead of an inflation blitz. The Fed will curb consumer credit with new regulations requiring bigger down payments and shorter terms for autos and major appliances. The NPA will issue its first order to curb inventory hoarding of scarce items like steel copper rubber and lumber. details to come.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
National Production Authority
NPA
Truman
Truman fires Denham as NLRB counsel
President Truman dismisses Robert N. Denham from the post of general counsel to the National Labor Relations Board amid a prolonged feud with the five board members. He cites deep seated differences hindering the Taft Hartley act administration. Senator Taft calls it a surrender to CIO actions and says the move nullifies the Taft Hartley law.
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Washington
Truman
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relations Board
Denham
Taft
Ohio
CIO
Office of
General Counsel
Tourist Travel Sets New Mark
A record 231771 tourist automobiles entered Montana this year through nine ports between June 14 and Sept 9, up 144 percent from last year. Washington supplied most cars with 37472. Missoula port led with 21 percent of traffic, about 50000 cars, while Rockvale declined due to late Cooke City road openings and Mile High storms.
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Helena
Montana
Albert Erickson
Erickson
Washington
California
Minnesota
Illinois
Oregon
Idaho
North Dakota
Michigan
Wisconsin
Hawaii
Panama Canal Zone
Japan
Arabia
Germany
Kenya
South Africa
Australia
Pacific Coast
Midwest
Rocky Mountain States
Missoula
Columbia Falls
Gardiner
Miles City
West Yellowstone
Rockvale
Crow Agency
Culbertson
Lima
Cooke City
Mile High
Shaw Gravely II: Shaw Faces Kidney Complication Crisis
Luton England Sept 16 George Bernard Shaw, aged 94, nears a critical turning point as doctors report the kidney complication following surgery on his fractured left thigh bone may lead to either improvement or deterioration. His physicians warn a decisive change is imminent.
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Luton
England
U.P
George Bernard Shaw
Cornerstone Ceremony Planned for New Girls Central High
The cornerstone for the $800,000 Girls Central High in Butte will be laid on Sunday afternoon October 1. Attending will be Archbishop Edward D. Howard of Portland and Bishop Joseph M. Gilmore of Helena, with bishops from several states and many laypeople. The project is ahead of schedule and expected to open after the new year. A time capsule will be placed beneath the cornerstone containing metals, newspapers, medals, and school history. The school stands on the former Butte High site destroyed by fire.
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Girls Central High School
M. M. English
St. Patrick Parish
Butte
Confraternity of Christian Doctrine Conference
Butte Hill
Helena
Quartz
Montana
English
Butte High School
FBI Knows Minute Details of Communist Strategy
Attorney General McGrath said the FBI possesses the most minute details of Communist strategy in America. He stated these details are destined only for the party's secret and inner councils.
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Washington
McGrath
FBI
America
Butte Area Weather Forecast for Sunday
Clear to partly cloudy conditions across Butte and Divide areas. Sunday highs 55 to 65 with minimal temperature change west of Divide and slightly warmer 60 to 65 east of Divide. Overnight Lows near 26 to 30 and Saturday peaks 54 to 56 at the airport and School of Mines.
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School of Mines
Divide
Bozeman Officer Survives Grenade Attack in Korea
Lt. Frank M. Reed informs his wife he caught an exploding grenade in Korea that knocked out two teeth and wounded him. a dentist removed the roots and Reed notes that was the worst part of the experience. Reed, a World War II veteran, married Kathleen Anderson in Butte last December and had recently moved to Tacoma after buying a home.
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Bozeman
Frank M. Reed
Korea
Reed
Europe
Kathleen Anderson
Butte
Tacoma
Congress Poised to Adjourn as War Preparations Loom
The 81st Congress nears a planned Wednesday or Thursday adjournment amid clashes over anti Communist measures and a defense spending boost of about 17.2 billion dollars to fund rearmament and the Korean conflict. A quick tax bill of 4.508 billion dollars와 excess profits fights linger while Marshall’s Defense nomination clears as a formality.
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House
Senate
Truman
Europe
George C. Marshall
Sam Rayburn
Congress
MacArthur Calls on Korean Communists to Surrender or Die
Washington dispatch reports Gen. Douglas MacArthur ordering Korean Communists to surrender or die. Defense spokesman says 3,000,000 flyers dropped in South Korean areas where Red forces concentrate urge surrender or face death and advertise UN landings on the peninsula’s east and west coasts.
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Washington
U.P
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
United Nations
Accountants Will Hold State Convention Here
Maurice E. Peloubet of Pogson Peloubet and company will deliver a major address at the Montana Society of Public Accountants annual convention in Butte on Sept 28 29 and 30. More than 100 CPAs are expected at the Finlen hotel with Bruce A. Risley as president.
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Maurice E. Peloubet
Pogson, Peloubet
Percy W. Pogson, Jr
Percy W. Pogson
el Paso
Peloubet
Sidney
Donald Arthur
Montana
Butte
Blinn
CPA
United States
Journal of Accountancy
National Association of Cost Account
Big Timber Man Killed in Auto Truck Collision
In Big Timber on the Boulder road two miles south of town a panel truck driven by Leland Liebel died in a collision Friday night with a car driven by Harold Clay. Stephen Dixson, 24, riding with Liebel, was injured and hospitalized in Livingston with a broken shoulder and other injuries. The crash raised Montana’s 1950 traffic deaths to 135, up from 119 a year ago.
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Leland Liebel
Boulder Road
Here
Liebel
Harold Clay
West Boulder
Stephen Dixson
Livingston
Clay
Montana
Charges Rise Over subversive label for National Lawyers Guild
The House un American activities committee branded the National Lawyers Guild the legal bulwark of the Communist party and urged its inclusion on the Justice Department subversive list. It urged registration as an agent of a foreign principal and possible barring of guild members from federal jobs.
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Washington
House un-American Activities Committee
National Lawyers Guild
Communist Party
Justice Department
American Bar Association
Thomas I. Emerson
Lawyers Guild
House Committee
Emerson
Sweden Demands Russians Leave Sweden
Sweden charged two Soviet embassy officials with entering a closed military area near Stockholm and demanded their withdrawal. A foreign office communique said a Soviet legation car was seen at Jaervafälet training field on Sept 13 within the capital area. The two men were not identified but one appeared to be a Soviet embassy official. Sweden urged the embassy to verify identities and to remove them.
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Stockholm
U.P
Sweden
Foreign Office
Legation
Jaervafaelet
Butte Man Killed in Altercation After Bar Incident
Olen Copley 40 a Butte miner died after an altercation near the East Broadway Alaska Bar 412 East Broadway. Coroner says head injuries suspected pending full investigation. Suspect Ahti Kulju 29 of 337 East Broadway admitted slapping Copley outside the Alaska Bar as police continued questioning.
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Olen Copley
Butte
St. James Hospital
East Broadway
R. E. Sayatovic
Ahti Eugene Kulju
Copiey
Ed Molthen
Kulju
Copley
Alaska
J. Frank Sullivan
Molthen
Plan to Rearm Germans Winning Favor
The North Atlantic council moved toward approving Secretary of State Achesons plan to rearm Germans for a defense force. French objections center on not yet arming Germans and the use of German units as a defense contribution. French Foreign Minister Schuman urged caution and proposed alternatives like internal security duties or fortifications on the Elbe called the Atlantic Wall.
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New York
North Atlantic Council
Acheson
Schuman
France
Council
Germany
Atlantic Wall
Elbe
United States
United
Blast kills one at Knoxville plastics plant
A chemical explosion at a Knoxville plastics plant on Saturday killed one worker and sent about fifty others to hospitals with injuries or illness from gas fumes.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Allied forces push in Seoul as Inchon landings begin
United Nations troops fight inside Seoul on Korea's west coast and push Reds into a retreat across the Naktong while Gen. MacArthur lands at Inchon with a 262 ship force. US and SK Marines advance 22 miles toward Seoul as airfields like Kimpo come under UN control and reported enemy losses rise.
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Tokyo
United Nations
Seoul
Korea
Naktong River
Douglas MacArthur
Inchon
South Korea
United States Airforce
Kimpo
Inchan
United States
United States First Corps
Inchon Destroyed by Brief Fighting in British Port Style
Inchon, Korea, Sept 16. Marines swept the city Friday night leaving Inchon blackened and torn. Rear Adm. Sohn Wung said residents are glad the Communists were driven out and that the enemy now fights in small bursts and flees.
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Inchon
Korea
Cherbourg
Sohn Wung
38 Montanans on Casualty Lists in Korean War
A Helena AP tally lists 38 Montana servicemen with eight killed in action, eight missing, and 22 wounded. Notable names include Marine Pfc Gene Richard Jewett and Sgt Harry Ray Jewett, sons of Kalispell resident La Rita Jewett Stroud, among others such as Pfc Jack W. Christensen and Lt Ralph Queen.
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Associated Press
Gene Richard Jewett
Harry Ray Jewett
la Rita Jewett Stroud
Kalispell
Helena
Jack W. Christensen
Mary Christensen
Sidney
Corp
Aldin B. Saloway
Arthur E. Saloway
Browning
Hugh Milleson
Thompson Falls
Ronald E. Parker
William A. Kusner
Troy
Ralph Queen
Henry W. Queen
Billings
Arnold L. Cridland
Maude M. Cridland
Miles City
Michael A. Dworshak
Egnats Dworshak
Bozeman
Gary E. Matson
Gary J. Matson
Bill G. McCormick
AWOL Private Joins Front Lines as South Korean Lieutenant
Floyd C. Haxton Jr., a 19 year old from San Bernardino California, left a rear warehouse job to fight in Korea and arrived on the front as a first lieutenant in a South Korean unit. Chalk bars on his helmet labeled him a lieutenant and he carried an M 1 rifle. Haxton recounted hitchhiking to Kyongju area on Sept 12 and insisting on joining combat as officers questioned him. Advisory officers plan to punish him by assigning him to a U S combat outfit.
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Korea
Floyd C. Haxton, Jr
San Bernardino
Calif
Haxton
Kyongju
Pusan
Borden T. Wright
Oakland
United States
Yak Fighters Attack Inchon Warships
Two Yak fighters from North Korea attacked American and British ships off Inchon. One bomber dropped four bombs near an American cruiser. a second Yak scored a near miss and then strafed a British cruiser, which shot it down. The British vessel reported three casualties, one serious, marking the first enemy air activity over the invasion fleet.
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United States
Inchon
Russia
Ship La Place Sinks After Mine Hit Off St Malo
A French weather observation ship La Place with 90 aboard hit a mine in the English Channel near Brittany and sank. Forty-three survivors and all bodies were recovered. 36 missing as search efforts continued in worsening seas. ceremonies at St Malo were canceled.
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ST. Malo
France
U.P
English Channel
la Place
Bay of Frennaie
Brest
Brittany
Montana Indian Killed By Two Autos Near Missoula
Noel Coombs about 40 of East Missoula was struck by two cars on US Highway 10 six miles east of Missoula. George Grigg of Columbia Falls hit him first around 8 30 PM and Roy Erickson of Missoula ran over him as he lay in the road. Coroner Ralph M Simmons ordered an inquest.
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Missoula
Noel Coombs
East Missoula
Here
Ralph M. Simmons
George Grigg
Columbia Falls
Coombs
Roy Erickson
Simmons
Grigg
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