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Newspaper
The Montana Standard
Location
Butte, Montana, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1950
Page
1
Soviet chief Sergei Dengin delivers a demand to open Western Berlin for Communist demonstrations timed with East German elections. West Berlin authorities suppress rallies and signatures for a Kremlin petition to ban the atom bomb amid mass arrests. Tensions rise as border shifts and troop movements flare between Soviet and British sectors.
The Montana highway commission awarded nine contracts totaling 1 233 052 for road and bridge work across the state. Winners include Peter Kiewit and Sons of Sheridan Wyoming for 8.49 miles of Conrad Shelby road, and McLaughlin Inc of Great Falls for 10.32 miles of Great Falls Fort Benton road, among others. One bid for a Missoula state highway shop building was rejected as unopened.
New York. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky walked out of a Waldorf dinner after Gov. Thomas E. Dewey charged the Soviet Union enslaves between 10 and 15 million people in slave labor camps. Dewey spoke at a United Nations dinner in Manhattan as delegates heard his remarks on Dean Acheson proposals.
Summer ends early Saturday with a forecast maximum of 72 degrees in Butte. The last full day of summer ends at 7 44 a m Saturday and autumn begins on Sunday December 22.
A Canadian Royal Air Force rescue plane retrieved an ailing weather man from a lonely outpost 680 miles from the north pole and sped him to a hospital at Churchill Manitoba in one of the longest mercy errands in Canadian aviation history.
Boston September 21 Thomas B McCabe chairman of the Federal Reserve Board warns of alarming inflation signs and forebodes a serious inflationary spiral He urges pay as you go taxes to support defense and notes rapid growth in bank loans and consumer debt totaling over 60 billion with a 10 billion rise in a year
President Truman said the government is weighing price controls but has not decided. He aims for cautious action to avoid wartime missteps and notes prices rising faster than wages. He cited the defense production act and seeks qualified leaders for the anti inflation effort while supporting Harriman’s attack on Senator Taft.
Robin McNab of Bozeman was reelected president of the Montana State Liquor Dealers association at its 14th annual convention. F J. Riley of Butte remains secretary and Joe Greiner of Deer Lodge treasurer. G. J. Zook of Kalispell named vice president to succeed Jack Higgins. Lewistown chosen as 1951 convention site. other directors include Carroll West Billings F J Gies Monarch Ben Stephens Great Falls Tom Hanrahan Miles City.
Charles W. Babonet 66, an Austrian immigrant living in a th to the end, left about 500000 to those who aided him and to charities. The beloved war veteran Peter Kelly received 50000. Pearl Tyson and family about 125000. a Denver kin were to get 125000. ten thousand each to Austrian relatives. rest to Los Angeles orphans. Bank of America President L M Giannini offered to act as executor after presenting the will in court.
Representatives from seven states Alaska three Canadian provinces and officials from Montana Washington Oregon Idaho Wyoming the Dakotas Alaska British Columbia Alberta and Saskatchewan met in Helena to form a Northwestern international civil defense commission. Gov C A Robins of Idaho was elected president with Alberta official C E Gerhart as vice president and Col E K Cheadle of Helena named secretary. The group plans by laws and invites state administrations to join. federal officials may appoint representatives. The initiative aims to share ideas coordinate plans and cut casualties in atomic scenarios.
4-H and FFA youths bring yearlings and hogs to Montana Livestock yards for a show judging and stock display. Events include a showmanship contest Friday at 1 pm, a fish and game commission sponsored film at 7:30 pm, and the annual sale Saturday at 1 pm with local buyers urged to attend. Sunday features a 9:30 am breakfast at Finlen hotel, a livestock parade at 1 pm, calf scramble at 2:30 pm, and daytime entertainment by the Butte high school band.
In Aberdeen Scotland on Thursday three year old James Riddoch rode a tractor driven binder on his father's farm. A bump sent him into the machinery and a belt carried him through where a cord tied around him and he was spit out in a bundle. He suffered severe bruises and a punctured shoulder but is expected to recover.
Butte expect clear to partly cloudy skies Friday with little temperature change. low around 34 and high near 72. Across Montana, clear to variable high cloudiness with little Friday warmth. highs 75 to 85.
United Nations steering committee moves full debate on the American plan to curb aggression and a Soviet bid for peace along Moscow backed lines. debate covers China Soviet aid claims Far East danger and demands for war prisoner accounting amid Balkan and Franco Spain reviews.
Montana Agriculture Commissioner Alfred R. Anderson said box car shortages may worsen before improving. He met with Earl R. Weimer of the Interstate Commerce Commission at Gov. Bonner’s request to seek more cars to move Montana wheat to market as eastern farmers dump grain due to full storage and last week’s rains damaged some of it. The ICC official cited a nationwide shortage caused by higher demand, fewer cars in service, and failure to unlock idle capacity.
Communist defenders of Seoul fought United States Marines on the outskirts of Seoul in the first phase of a broad operation. Marines dug in on a height northwest of the city as fighting raged along the front with 18,000 Reds reportedly preparing to street fight through a city of about 1 million.
Allied air forces report killing more than 900 enemy troops on Thursday as they renewed strikes along retreat routes near North Korea. Maj. Gen. Earle Partridge said the new fighter cover system is working well and to be continued.
United States Marines advancing toward Seoul along the Han River edge cautiously up ridge tops and glimpse the outskirts of the city. In a two mile long railway marshalling yard northwest of Seoul they note allied air superiority as they close in on the capital held by invading North Korean Reds since June.
North front offensives report Hunghae captured five miles north of Pohang by the Republic of Korea Third division. Kigye falls after the Capitol division reaches the road junction. Allied ships and planes aid the advance as Communist forces pull back in rear guard actions.
William Draper Blair Jr., 23, reporter for the Baltimore Sun, was shot in the back Friday while observing U S Marines assault along the Han river north of Seoul. The wound, fired by a North Korean sniper, was treated by a Marine corpsman and Blair was evacuated.
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