Veterans Cannot Be Required to Join Union
Washington dispatch notes Selective Service ruled veterans with re employment rights cannot be forced to join a union to regain their jobs. The guide says the veteran’s right to his old job takes precedence over seniority during the year of reinstatement, and union membership may not be required as a pre condition to re employment. It also favors veterans in borderline cases regarding whether a former job was permanent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Labor unions file strike petitions as auto talks stall
Detroit reports union spokesmen say petitions for strike votes among United Automobile Workers in Ford Chrysler and General Motors will be filed soon. Early returns favor seeking National Labor Relations Board backed strike elections to push for a 30 percent wage increase across the industry while Kelsey-Hayes dispute lingers and GM Ford Chrysler face potential action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
United Automobile Workers
C. I
Ford
Chrysler
Kelsey-Hayes
General Motors
Auto
United States
Ford and
Chrysler Workers
Chrysler Department
Washington
Richard T. Leonard
Ford Department
Percy Llewellyn
Joe Rubin
Polio Claims Fourth Billings Victim
In Billings Montana six year old Robert Glen Bramlett son of Mr and Mrs Leslie L Bramblett died in a local hospital after a week of illness with infantile paralysis He had been among sixteen patients in an isolated ward in the hospital Yellowstone county polio patients include three from Carbon county and three from Big Horn counties
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billings
Infantiel
Robert Glen Bramlett
Leslie L. Bramblett
Western Solons See Tough Fight
Western senators and congressmen anticipate a difficult path for a broad reclamation program. Key opponents in Congress, including budget and land policy interests, threaten to stall funding and passage as they argue over farm land needs and prior crop controls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
Murdock
D-Ariz
House Irrigation and Reclamation Committee
House
House Appropriations Committee
Representative Cannong
D-Mo
Army Sets New Overseas Service Exemption Scores
The Army announced new screening scores to exempt about 300,000 personnel from overseas duty. Enlisted men with a September 2 point total of 36 or more, or aged 37, or aged 34 with over one year of service, will stay stateside. Officers except medical staff with 48 points or more are exempt, with detailed 4, 12, 18, 30, and 40 year or point-based rules for medical officers, nurses, and related corps. Women in the Women's Army Corps are not shipped overseas. Regular Army or volunteers for overseas service remain unaffected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Army
Medical Department
Dental Corps
Women’s Army Corps
Regular Army
Montanans Due Back in the U S
Montana soldiers listed to return aboard ships Ambrose E Burnside and Henry Gibbons dock in Boston include Loren W Hansen Highwood John W Sevier Kalispell Cole man G Kilpatrick Ural Richard E Keaster Great Falls Russell E Mayden Huson Clarence F Donaldson Hamilton Ray P Murray Avon Rei B Shephard Polson and Gerald Shea Butte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
United States
Ambrose E. Burnside
Boston
Loren W. Hansen
Highwood
John W. Sevier
Kalispell
Coleman G. Kilpatrick
Ural
Richard E. Keaster
Great Falls
Russell E. Mayden
Huson
Clarence F. Donaldson
Hamilton
Henry Gibbons
Fire engulfs Mission Street factory causing 300000 damage
Firemen fought for over an hour to control a stubborn three alarm blaze at a Mission street electric and radio equipment factory in San Francisco. The fire caused an estimated 300000 dollars in damage and disrupted operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Mission Street
Congressional Probe Confronts American Communist Leaders
The House committee on un American activities will question four top Communist leaders on Wednesday about the party's recent reorganization and alleged dangerous operations. Edward J. Loughlin of Tammany Hall is to testify on endorsement of Davis. West Coast activities and Hollywood propaganda are also under inquiry. Open hearings were debated by committee members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Earl Browder
William Z. Foster
Benjamin Davis
Jack Stachel
Edward J. Loughlin
New York City
Tammany Hall
Davis
Hollywood Films
Wood
Dga
Representative Landis
R-Ind
Webster
Rankin
D-Miss
West Coast
Truman Assumes Personal Responsibility for Atomic Policy
President Truman said he will take full personal responsibility for the United States atomic energy policy and will decide when the time is right. He stressed that the welfare of the country guides any decision, with cabinet members present in discussions but no one acting without his authorization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Henry Wallace
Russia
Wallace
Chicago
Delegates Arrive for State Meet in Butte
Delegates from across Montana arrive in Butte for the Montana Building and Loan league annual meeting. Registration at Hotel Finlen precedes a full day of sessions Monday starting 9 AM with elections in the afternoon and a Meaderville banquet to close. J F Emigh will give the welcome, with speakers including Frank H Johnson and John J Burke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Montana Building and Loan League
Finlen
Meaderville
J. F. Emi
Prudential Federal Savings of
Salt Lake
War Trial Enters Second Week At Lueneburg
Sophia Litinska, survivor of gas chamber death camps, testifies as 45 defendants face charges of murder and mistreatment at Oswiecim and Belsen. The British military court seeks individual accountability within a framework of due process and established law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lueneberg
Germany
Oswiecim
Belsen
Sophia Litinska
Allied soldiers barred from marrying German girls in Germany
Field marshal Montgomery issued an order mirroring Eisenhower restricting British soldiers from marrying German girls and from billeting with German families. The Allied control commission had allowed some Allied troops to wed German women and stay in German homes, subject to zone commander discretion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herford
Germany
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eisenhower
Allied Control Commission
Russians Seek to Shift Responsibility in European Peace Talks
London dispatch reports a Moscow Pravda comment rebuking British critics of Soviet aims as the Big Five foreign ministers enter a third week of talks. It notes progress on the Finnish peace pact with Britain and Russia, while Italo Yugoslav frontier, Trieste, and Italian colonies remain in dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Moscow
Pravda
Soviet Union
Mediterranean
Big Five Council
Iran
Italy
Yugoslavia
Big Five
Russia
Great Britain
Trieste
Montana West To East Cloudy With Light Showers Monday
Montana west of the continental divide remains cloudy with light scattered showers and mountain snow. East of the divide also stays cloudy with mountain snow and a slight warmup expected Monday.
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Montana
Continental Divide
Montains
Japanese War Trials to Start Soon
Tokyo reports say Japan's top field general was jailed with Hideki Tojo and other suspected war criminals facing speedy trials possibly within a month. MacArthur says trials by military tribunals would begin soon, possibly in October, as plans divide defendants into war planners and officers who allowed brutalities. Doihara, a noted intelligence figure, surrendered, and Siam's ambassador Watakkan Wichit was detained near Tokyo.
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Tokyo
Japan
Hideki Tojo
Nippon Times
Commerce Ministry
Washington
Gen. MacArthur
Manila
Yokohama
Kenji Doihara
Doihara
First Army
Lawrence
Manchuria
Wathakan Wichit
Siam
Miyanoshita
MacArthur
Masaharu Homma
Dean Acheson
Trains Collide Near Prosser Kill Fireman
Two Northern Pacific locomotives collided head on half a mile west of Prosser. Fireman Melvin Schagel was killed and engineer Paul Schagel injured. A freight car carrying iced salmon was wrecked and scattered. Ambulances from Army and Navy posts and nearby towns aided casualties as traffic resumed after 90 minutes.
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Prosser
Wash
Northern Pacific
Melvin Schagel
Paul Schagel
Army
Emperor Hirohito Denial of Abdication Rests on Fact
Tokyo dispatch reports a palace secretary labeling rumors that Hirohito abdicated to dodge war crime punishment as absolutely untrue. The rumor, broadcast from Chungking and cited by the FCC, prompted clarifying statements from Emperor’s household ministry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halsey
Emperor Hirohito
Meiji Shrine
Tokyo
William C. Chase
First Cavalry Division
Signal Corps
U.P
Hirohito
Imperial Household Ministry
Shishikui
Chungking Radio
Federal Communications Commission
Douglas MacArthur
Billings Police Capture Prison Escapee
Billings police captured John Kenney, one of three Montana state prison escapees from Deer Lodge. A six block chase in Billings ended when he leaped from a stolen Basin Wyoming car and was wounded in a neck and shoulder. Kenney is hospitalized under guard. fellow escapee William A. Hamilton was captured near Cody, Wyoming, Sept. 12. Roy Howard Scott remains at large.
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Billings
John Kenney
Montana
Deer Lodge
Kenney
Basin
Wyo
William A. Hamilton
Cody
Hamilton
Douglas Bentley
Powell
Roy Howard Scott
Quakes Felt Across Western Montana Sunday Morning
Two sharp earthquakes rattled western Montana around 4 am Sunday waking residents in Butte Hamilton Missoula Polson Kalispell Belton Glacier National Park Helena Wolf Creek Great Falls and other communities. No damage was reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Butte
Standard
Hamilton
Bitter Root
Missoula
Polson
Kalispell
Belton
Glacier National Park
Continental Divide
Helena
Wolf Creek
Great Falls
Allied Flyer Eludes Capture 68 Days Then War Ends
An American radioman recounts 68 days on Hokkaido after his Helldiver crashed. He survived by stealing food and milk from farmers, learned the war had ended from a Japanese passerby, and rejoined his carrier Shangri La on September 21. He was the sole survivor of the crash that killed Lt. Eagleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazel Hartzog
Tokyo
U.P
Oliver B. Rasmussen
I/c
Japan
Hokkaido
Rasmussen
Shangri-La
J. G
Howard E. Eagleston
New York City
Tokokomai
Some Doolittle Flyers Killed Reported by Japanese
A Japanese war crimes committee led by Lt. Gen. Tad aichi Wakamatsu says evidence shows some Doolittle raid pilots were executed and buried outside Japan. Three of eight captured flyers remain unaccounted for. five sentences were commuted. Ueda and Higashi-Kuni discuss orders and lack of knowledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Japan
Japanese War Ministry
Tadaichi Wakamatsu
United States Army
Masao Ueda
Army Press Section
Wakamatsu
Associated Press
China
Peiping
Prince Higashi-Kuni
Ueda
War Ministry
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