Major Powers to Hold Session Today
Paris dispatch reports President Georges Bidault calling a Tuesday afternoon meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers to resolve treaty amendments and push toward adjournment of the 21 nation peace conference by October 15. The United States shifted to partial compensation for Romanian losses, aligning with Russia, while Britain clung to full payment.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
France
United States
Britain
Russia
Romania
Libya
Eritrea
Czechoslovakia
Greece
Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations General Assembly
Italy
Bulgaria
Hungary
William Thorp
U. S. State Department
Finland-Balkan Economic Commission
Amazasp Artutinjan
Yugoslavia
Pittsburgh Faces Power Strike Grips City
Pittsburgh officials mobilize to shield 1.5 million residents as Duquesne Light employees plan a 8:30 a.m. strike Tuesday signaled by a court injunction hearing. The union orders 3,500 members to court to contest the injunction, with law enforcement braced for possible disruption.
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Pittsburgh
Duquesne Light Company
Independent Association of Employes
Duquesne Light and Associated Companies
Sher
Petitions to Remove Meat Price Control Studied
Agriculture department officials said petitions for removal of meat price control will be filed with Secretary Anderson next month likely on October 8. The OPA industry advisory committee on meat plans to meet here Tuesday to consider filing such petitions.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Anderson
OPA
Industry Advisory Committee On
Importance of U S Airport Act Cited at Conclave
The FAA act is praised as the most progressive aviation legislation in U S history by Mau rice Brooks of the CAA Seattle office to Northwest Aviation Planning council delegates. Gen George C Kenney, soon Army strategic air forces commander in chief, will speak at the conclave closing banquet.
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United States
Maurice Brooks
CAA
Seattle
Northwest Aviation Planning Council
Brooks
George C. Kenney
Army
Strategic Air Forces
Kenney
Douglas MacArthur
Far East
United Nation
Air
Joint Chiefs of Staff
United Nations
Silver Bow
Hotel
Finlen
Chamber of Commerce
West Broadway
Finlen Hotel
Gen
Sam C. Ford
Helena
Market's Early Gains Erased
New York stocks closed lower after a volatile session that saw early gains erased by late selling. Brisk morning buying had lifted prices $1 to $4 before a wave of selling pulled many prominent names down. Notable losers included Southern Railway, Montgomery Ward, Schenley, American Telephone, U S Steel, and General Motors as total volume reached 2,110,000 shares.
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New York
Southern Railway
Montgomery Ward
Schenley
American Telephone
U. S. Steel
General Motors
SEC Plans Reconstruct Market Sale For Sept 3 Collapse
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced it will reconstruct the entire September 3 trading day sale by sale to determine the causes of the stock market break. The effort aims to identify factors behind the crash and market behavior on that date.
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Philadelphia
U.P
Securities and Exchange Commission
Ships Move Out of Harbors After 17 Day Strike Ends
After a 17 day stoppage, ships began departing bottlenecked harbors as west coast longshoremen and other unions returned to work. Wage increases set by a federal mediator raised seamen to 172.50 dollars and firemen to 177.50 monthly.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Harry Bridges
CIO
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association
New York
Masters, Mates and Pilots
AFL
Los Angeles
Matson
Great Lakes Navigation Company
Great Lakes
Two Killed Four Hurt in Blast at Moose Clubhouse
In Newburyport Massachusetts on September 23 a basement explosion at a Moose Clubhouse redecorating for a World War II veterans welcome home party killed two painters including Wilfred Pelletier 44 Amesbury father of ten and Alphonse Beliveau 67 of Amesbury. Four others were burned as they scrubbed floors with gasoline.
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Newburyport
Mass
Wilfred Pelletier
Merrimac Street
Amesbury
Alphonse C. Beliveau
Pelletier
Andrew May May Return to Capital This Week
Prestonburg Kentucky report states Dr John Archer said Rep Andrew J May who is to testify before a Senate war investigating subcommittee on a munitiones combine would likely go to Washington this week unless a cold develops further. Archer said he was waiting for word from Washington on May appearance while noting May had been seen on the porch recently.
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Prestonsburg
John Archer
Andrew J. May
Senate War Investigating
Washington
Archer
May
War Veteran Kills Wife Then Takes Own Life in Virginia
In Clifton Forge Virginia a 28 year old Marine veteran wounded on Okinawa opened fire in his estranged wife’s home. He killed his wife, critically wounded his three year old daughter and injured his mother in law before turning a .32 caliber pistol on himself as police arrived. The dead shooter was identified as Clark Beckner.
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Clifton Forge
Okinawa
Clark Beckner
Blaze Threatens Contra Costa Homes Near Grizzly Peak
Berkeley dispatch reports thousands of Contra Costa County residents flee in a fast moving brush fire. Firefighters and volunteers battle flames threatening Oakland Berkeley homes orchards and ranch property with no casualties reported. The blaze, likely incendiary, skirts Grizzly Peak and heads east as winds shift.
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Berkeley
Calif
U.P
Contra Costa County
Oakland-Berkeley
Oakland
James Long
Grizzly Peak
North
President Seeks New Ambassador for Britain
President Truman began searching for a man of outstanding character and prestige to be the new ambassador to Great Britain. Close associates, unnamed, say the London post successor to W Averell Harriman may help build support in Congress and public opinion as Harriman moves to commerce secretary.
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Washington
Truman
Great Britain
London
W. Averell Harriman
Commerce
Harriman
Henry A. Wallace
Congress
London Post
Wallace
Band of Jews Dynamites Railroad Train
In Haifa Palestine on Monday night a group of Jews dynamited a train between Hadera and Lydda, halting the engine and cars with no casualties reported. Officials say the attack destroyed the engine and two coaches while other cars were damaged. Earlier about 600 illegal Jewish immigrants were transferred to a British troopship for Cyprus after attempts to swim to the Holy Land.
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Haifa
Palestine
Egypt
Hadera
Lydda
Cyprus
Holy Land
Palestine Police
Palmakh
Helopolis
Jewish Agency
Harriman Backs Byrnes Policy
W Averell Harriman stated he fully supports President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes foreign policy. He said the public opinion in America backs their approach and that the road to peace lies in high principles set by Roosevelt. Harriman noted Byrnes spoke kindly about his appointment and outlined plans to travel to Paris before returning to the United States.
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London
W. Averell Harriman
Truman
Byrnes
Henry Wallace
United States
Harriman
Paris
Five U S air force flyers to be buried in Arlington
Five United States air force flyers shot down over Yugoslavia will be buried in a common grave at Arlington National Cemetery on Wednesday September 25.
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Washington
United States Air Force
Yugoslavia
Arlington National Cemetery
Weather outlook for Butte and Montana Tuesday
Mostly clear skies in Butte with slightly warmer temperatures. Highs range 65 to 75 in Montana with increasing clouds Tuesday and warmer conditions.
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Montana
Stalin Sees No Real Danger of New War
In a Moscow radio broadcast quoted by a London newspaper Stalin says the world faces no real danger of a new war. He argues Britain and the United States cannot encircle the Soviet Union and minimizes the impact of atomic bombs. He also endorses an early U S troop withdrawal from China as vital to peace.
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Stalin
London
Moscow Radio
Britain
United States
Soviet Union
China
Alexander Worth
Moscow
London Sunday Times
Worth
Soviet Monitor
Dramatic eyewitness tale of Belgians crash survivors
Miss Helen Ruth Henderson one of 18 survivors at Gander Air Base hospital recounts the Sabena airliner crash in Newfoundland. She describes the moment of impact, escape, tending to the injured, building a fire, signs of rescue by passing planes, salvaging items, and the hope sparked by a dropping message and arriving rescuers.
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Newfoundland Forest
Gander
Newfoundland
Helen Ruth Henderson
New York
Gander Air Base
Jefferson City
Tenn
John King
John
Jeanne Rook
Warns of Subsidized Agriculture for United States
Chicago September 23 Louis Bromfield a noted farmer banker and Pulitzer prize winning author warned at the 72nd annual convention of the American Bankers association that the nation is moving toward subsidized agriculture. He argued government regimentation and subsidies lower living standards and threaten liberty.
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Chicago
Louis Bromfield
China
India
American Bankers’ Association
Bromfield
America
Quakes Recorded at Caltech on Monday
Two moderately strong earthquakes were recorded at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. The first quake struck at 2 16 p m and the second at 3 43 p m Seismologist Dr C F Richter said neither the distance nor the direction of the quakes could be determined.
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Pasadena
Calif
U.P
California Institute of Technology
C. F. Richter
New Hindu Moslem Violence Reported
Seven deaths and scores of stabbing and bludgeoning casualties were reported as Hindu Muslim violence flared in India. Calcutta saw three killed and over 50 wounded in riots that began Sunday night, while Jammu in Kashmir recorded four deaths and 12 injuries. Police and military reinforcements were rushed to Jammu from various parts of Kashmir.
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New Delhi
India
Bombay
Calcutta
Jammu
Kashmir
Little Hope Held for Msgr Joyce
Little hope was held Monday night for the recovery of the Rt Rev Msgr William P Joyce vicar general of the diocese of Helena and pastor of Sacred Heart parish in Butte who has been critically ill in St James hospital since undergoing an abdominal operation last night hospital attendance reported Msgr Joyce was very ill
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William P. Joyce
Diocese of
Helena
Sacred Heart Parish
Butte
St. James Hospital
Msgr
Joyce
Gromyko Asks Action of U N Council
In a UN Security Council session Gromyko accused the United States of keeping troops in China and other nations. Brazilian delegate Pedro Leno Velloso rebutted that no U S soldiers are on Brazilian soil. The council adjourned without ruling on a Russian resolution seeking troop dispositions.
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Lake Success
N. Y
Russia
United Nations Security Council
United States
China
Iceland
Latin America
Andrei A. Gromyko
Council
Netherlands
Gromyko
Britain
Australia
Truman
James F. Byrnes
Welfare Problems Discussed at Montana Conference
Public welfare caseworkers from ten western Montana counties convened at the Y M C A in Butte for their annual educational conference. The session featured a talk by Milo C. Johnson of the FBI on Juvenile Delinquency, noting rising crime among youths and a major crime roughly every 20 seconds.
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Montana
Butte
T. J. Sivalon
Milo C. Johnson
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Johnson
United States
Shields resigns from P M A and CCC posts
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson announced the resignation of Robert H. Shields from his dual roles as administrator of the Production and Marketing Administration and president of the Commodity Credit Corporation. No successor has been named. Shields joined the Agriculture Department in 1934 and had served since 1935 with the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Anderson
Robert H. Shields
The
Production and Marketing Administration
Commodity Credit Corporation
Shields
Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
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