Tragedy Off Kwajalein Claims 26 Navy Lives
A Navy four engine transport crashed into the sea off Kwajalein killing 26 Navy personnel aboard including 19 passengers and seven crew. Rescue efforts found no survivors though four bodies were recovered. A separate Pacific crash later claimed seven more lives in Puget Sound.
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Associated Press
Pacific
Kwajalein
Puget Sound
Pearl Harbor
Navy
14Th Naval District
Globe Trotter
Air
Montana Power Builds Vast Gas Network Expansion
Montana Power announces a record gas construction program nearing completion adding 532 miles of high pressure lines. The Butte Bozeman transmission line opened Aug. 25 linking east and west systems, with Belgrade Manhattan Three Forks and Whitehall distribution in service or near completion.
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Montana Power Company
F. W. Bird
Reibeling
Black Eagle
Absarokee
Butte-Bozeman
Continental Divide
Montana
Belgrade
Manhattan
Three Forks
Whitehall
Girl Choked to Death by Swelling Bean
In Indianapolis a one year old girl named Nancy Lou Patterson choked on a swelling bean after doctors earlier saved her from a separate attack. State police and doctors treated her with a throat tube, but she died at home three hours later. Deputy coroner Dr. Harrison Green suggested a bean fragment may have become lodged in the throat and swelled, closing the windpipe.
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Indianapolis
Katherine Patterson
Nancy Lou
Harrison Green
UN Assembly Rejects Red Plan for China's Seat
The U N General Assembly opened its first session by voting down a Soviet backed Indian proposal to give China’s seat to the Communist government and adopting a Canadian plan to form a seven nation committee to study representation. Dean Acheson led the opposition amid a tense chamber as Nasrollah Entezam of Iran was elected president.
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UN Assembly
China
Commies
New York
United Nations General Assembly
Peiping
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
United Nations
United States
Dean Acheson
India
Sir Benegal Rau
Nasrollah Entezam
Iran
Major Provisions of Compromise Tax Bill Approved
Washington deals with the final approval of the first installment of a $5 billion tax bill to curb inflation. A 10 percent withholding tax on corporate dividends was added to target unpaid or forgotten dividend income. Conferees anticipate about $5 billion in annual revenue after minor technical changes, with a meeting set for Wednesday to finalize remaining details.
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Washington
House
Senate
Doughton
D-N. C
Ways and Means
Representative Mills
D-Ark
Treasury Department
French Defeated by Red Troops Near Dongkhe Outpost
Vietnamese Viet Minh forces captured the Dongkhe frontier outpost after intense hand to hand fighting. French reinforcements were rushed toward Pakha as a potential major offensive loomed. The Dongkhe garrison suffered heavy casualties with 120 of 290 reported as wounded.
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Saigon
China
Dongkhe
Pakha
Lackay
China-Indo-China
Hanoi
Marcel Carpentier
French Foreign Legionnaires
Inch
Washington Orders More Red Tape
The Decatur association of commerce reports Washington requires 4 610 spools of red tape after reviewing federal government needs.
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Washington
Decatur, Ill
U.P
Decatur Association of Commerce
Weather-favored week may worsen Montana wheat storage
Forecasters expect warm dry weather in Montana to speed harvest of a record 68,438,000 bushels of spring wheat despite frost rain and a boxcar shortage. Elevators along the high line are bulging and many trucks are being turned away as storage capacity nears limit, says State Agriculture Commissioner Alfred Anderson.
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Montana
Alfred Anderson
Weather Forecast for Butte and Surrounding Areas
Partly cloudy and slightly warmer Wednesday with widely scattered afternoon thunder showers. Wednesday temperatures range from 40 to 70. airport 37 to 64. School of Mines 38 to 63. West of Divide expect 70 to 80 highs. East of Divide 78 to 88 locally 65 to 70 southwest with storms.
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School of Mines
Divide
Associated Press
Billings
Belgrade
Es PS Ee
Liquor Dealers Conclave Opens In Butte By Delegates
About 400 attendees, including 200 Montana liquor dealers and guests, arrive in Butte for the 14th Montana Licensed Liquor Dealers association convention. Robin McNabb of Bozeman presides at the opening session, with talks from national and state figures and a noon Dutch lunch courtesy of local brewers.
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Montana Licensed Liquor Dealers Association
Toals
Butte
Robin McNabb
Bozeman
Montana
R. S. Adams
Los Angeles
Southern California Liquor Dealers Association
Max Mangum
Washington, D. C
United States Brewers Foundation
Walter F. Morrison
Washington, D C
Distilled Spirits Institute
R. H. O’hearn
Helena
Montana State Liquor Control Board
J. H. England
Montana Highway Patrol
Paul E. Jorgenson
Racine
Wis
National Liquor Beverage Association
Truman urges labor amid world crisis and Taft fight
President Truman, addressing the American Federation of Labor, urged workers to boost production to arm a free world against Communist imperialism. He backed repealing the Taft Hartley act and criticized Sen. Taft, while Harriman urged his defeat. Wherry dismissed Harriman’s charges as shifting blame.
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Houston
Texas
Truman
American Federation of Labor
United States
George Meaney
Mr. Truman
W. Averell Harriman
Sen
Robert Taft
Ohio
Taft
Harriman
Congress
Columbus
Senate
Wherry
Nebraska
Washington
Billings Soldier Killed in Korea
James D. Seamster 19 of Billings is killed in action in Korea, according to his father George Seamster. A member of the Indian Head Second division, he left the states two months ago after several months at Fort Lewis Washington.
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Billings
James D. Seamster
Korea
George Seamster
Indian Head
Pfc. Seamster
States
Fort Lewis
Wash
Big 3 Warns Reds to Keep Their Hands Off Berlin
The Big Three foreign ministers warned the Soviet Union to stay out of Berlin and western Germany. They agreed to back the Bonn government and Berlin, end the state of war with Germany, and authorize a 40 000 man West German police force to handle riots. They will consider any attack on western Germany or Berlin as an attack on themselves.
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Big 3
Reds
Berlin
New York
Russia
Germany
Soviet Union
Dean Acheson
Ernest Bevin
United States Congress
United States
Japan
Britain’s Labour Regime Wins Confidence Vote
Britain's Labour government under Prime Minister Clement Attlee won 306 to 300 in a close House of Commons confidence vote. The victory endorses nationalization of Britain's steel industry, with steel to come under public ownership early next year. The margin was the smallest in the five-year socialist experiment, and the government vowed to resign and seek new elections if defeated.
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London
U.P
Clement Attlee
Labor
House of Commons
Attlee
Britain
House
Winston Churchill
Gibraltar
Greenland
Australia
Marshall Named Secretary of Defense by Senate Panel
Gen George C Marshall won 9 to 2 Senate armed services committee approval to become secretary of defense after an open hearing. He promised to weigh military consequences in international policy and to resist calls from Republicans that he would be a mere adviser to Dean Acheson, who would hold the secretary of state post. The vote follows Louis A Johnson’s ouster and Truman’s acceptance of his resignation.
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Washington
George C. Marshall
Senate Armed Services Committee
Defense
Dean Acheson
Marshall
Louis A. Johnson
Truman
Congress
Acheson
Johnson
Pentagon
Aide of Dr Sander Found Dead in New Hampshire Woods
Helen Macidelek 25 secretary to Dr Hermann N Sander was found dead in a grassy woodland near Hooksett New Hampshire. A two ounce glass jigger and a possible envelope with powders were found near the body raising death by self harm suspicions. Sander had been acquitted in a prior murder case involving a cancer patient Abbie Boretto.
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Hooksett
N. H
Pretty Helen Mactolek
Hermann N. Sander
Raymond K. Perkins
Perkins
Macidlek
Helen
Dr. Sander
Miss Macidlek
Thomas Macidlek
Sander
Abbie Borreto
Miss Maciolek
Americans Push Toward Seoul as Marines Cross Han River
United States Marines and tanks crossed the Han River eight miles northwest of Seoul and moved within four miles of the capital amid Korean retreat. Air spotters saw no confirmed Red soldiers. Seventh Division infantry held the main road from Seoul, while UN forces pounded the Pusan beachhead and 130,000 Reds fought to stem the advance.
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Tokyo
United States
Han River
Seoul
Han
United States Seventh Division
United Nations
Pusan
Pe Ir
South Korea
38Th Parallel
Kimpo
Berlin
United States Eighth Army
Pohang
Mis
Annual 4 H Show and Sale Opens Tomorrow
The fourth annual Butte 4-H livestock show and sale opens Thursday through Sunday at the Montana Livestock Auction yards. James B. Glover Jr. notes it will be the largest event yet with 300 plus youths from 12 southwestern Montana counties involved. Livestock entries are accepted Thursday afternoon and Friday morning before 10 am. Judging starts at 1 pm Friday.
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Butte
4-H Club
Montana
Farmers of America
Butte Man Listed Missing in Korea
Pfc Wilbur L. Hodge son of Mr and Mrs Roy F Hodge of 102 Missoula has been missing in action in Korea since Sept 1 the War department notified his parents Tuesday afternoon Hodge enlisted January 1949 trained at Fort Lewis attached to the 23rd Infantry of the 2nd division went overseas in July He attended Butte high school and was employed by Northern Pacific railway before enlistment.
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Wilbur L. Hodge
Roy F. Hodge
Missoula
Korea
War Department
Pfc
Hodge
Army
Fort Lewis
Wash
23Rd Infantry
Butte High School
Butte
Northern Pacific Railway
Passport restricted for Dr. Ralph Spitzer
The State department said on Tuesday it restricted the passport of Dr. Ralph Spitzer former Oregon State University faculty member who attended a leftist students meeting in Czechoslovakia. He is currently in the Netherlands with a passport limited to return to the United States.
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Washington
U.P
State Department
Ralph Spitzer
Oregon State University
Czechoslovakia
Spitzer
Netherlands
Defense Officials Tempering Their War Optimism With Caution
Washington reports cautious Pentagon stance on Inchon and North Korea. Officials say no sign yet of Chinese intervention but warn it remains possible until UN forces destroy the North Korean army. Past Allied landings suggest a slower North Korean counteraction.
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Washington
Pentagon
China
Inchon
North Korea
North
South Korea
United Nations
Far East air and ground actions pound North Korean forces
Far East Air Force planes conducted a near record strike of 670 sorties Tuesday against North Korean ground troops in southeastern Korea while a large airlift fed the Inchon beachhead. B 26 bombers and FP 80 jets hit targets across Korea as B 29s attacked military and industrial sites and a steady airlift supplied Kimpo airfield near Seoul.
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Tokyo
Far East Air Force
Inchon
Korea
United States Second Division
Naktong River
Waegwan
Taegu
Kunchon
Yongdong
Jeju
Taejon
Sariwon
Chochi
Seoul
Far East Combat Command
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