Excess Profits Levy Will Tap Business for Nearly $5 Billion
The House ways and means committee reports a new excess profits tax would raise about 4.6 billion dollars retroactive to July 1, 1950, and target war swelled profits. It would impose a 75 percent excess tax on profits above 85 percent of average 1946-49 earnings, with critics warning of inflationary effects and utility rate increases.
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Ways and Means Committee
Truman
Senate
Congress
Hal Holmes
Wash
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Senate Finance Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
John W. Snyder
Walter F. George
D—Ga
Snyder
National Broadcasting Company
War Plane Fund Aims 84 Air Force Groups By 1952
The Budget Bureau said Truman’s request of 2.1147 billion dollars would let the Air Force expand to 68 groups by July 1 next year and 84 groups by July 1, 1952. Each group comprises 75 planes in day fighter units, 36 all weather, 30 B36 superbombers, and 45 plus refueling planes for tankers. The plan targets major aircraft such as B36, B47, F86, and F84, with security limits preventing full disclosure of numbers or types.
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Truman
Congress
Budget Bureau
Air Force
United Press
Russia
Moses Lake
Washington State
Andrews
First Texas guidebooks arrive in 1839 by two publishers
Rev Lawrence of New Orleans and Mr Stiff of Philadelphia set to publish the Emigrant's Guide to the New Republic. The volume Texas in 1840 appeared that autumn but is not an authentic portrait. Other writers, Kennedy and Roemer, offered more reliable views, while Hooton and Houstoun colored opinions by conditions of travel.
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Lawrence
New Orleans
Stiff
Philadelphia
Texas
New Republic
New Orleans Presbyterian
Republic of Texas
William Kennedy
Ferdinand Roemer
Charles Hooton
Matilda Houstoun
Lava Eruption Resumes From Mt Etna In Sicily
Lava again pours from Mt Etna threatening areas beyond prior danger zone. By Monday the volcano atop its 10,741 foot summit showed flowing red clouds. Ten days of lava activity have been logged in this eruption with flows toward Renazzo and Milo on the eastern slopes.
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Catania
Sicily
Mt. Etna
Renazzo
Milo
Poland Census Takers Making Full Count
Warsaw reports a full census underway as 120000 enumerators cover the country for the first postwar count. The 1946 census was incomplete due to displacements, yielding a 23,929,757 tally. this year’s count is expected to exceed 25,000,000.
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Poland
Warsaw
Near Freezing Weather Hits Central Texas
Cold snap grips Texas with Dalhart reporting the state low at minus fourteen degrees Sunday. The cold extends from the Panhandle to Junction in the Hill Country while Central Texas may reach freezing lows around 32 to 35 degrees. East Texas looks for fair skies and warmer temps Monday with cloud buildup Tuesday. West Texas faces increasing clouds Monday and Tuesday.
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Texas
Dalhart
Panhandle
Junction
East Texas
West Texans
Houston Chronicle Backs President in Editorial Plea
The Houston Chronicle endorses President Truman in a lead editorial urging Americans to support the President during a grave crisis. The piece emphasizes national danger and calls on the public to close ranks and rally behind him.
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Houston
Houston Chronicle
Jesse H. Jones
Truman
United States
Attlee Heads to Washington amid Atlantic Pact concerns
Prime Minister Attlee expected to travel to Washington after Commons debate on foreign affairs. discussions to include an international body for essential materials, revival of a combined Anglo American staff group, aid to Britain for rearmament, and coordination of West Germany's military resources with Atlantic Pact allies.
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Britain
Bevin
Commons
Korea
United States
Attlee
Washington
Anglonone Chiefs-Of-Staff
Mapoint
Ubae Aineedle Naid
West Germany
Red Propaganda Group Found in Chilean Center
In Antofagasta Chile police disclosed on Sunday the discovery of a Communist propaganda organization in this nitrate and copper producing city.
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Red
Chile
Antofagasta
German Comedy Has Top Rate Performers at Texas Theater
A review notes the film Made in Germany is a farce with incidental music and a play within a play device. The jailer, an inebriated asset, provides comic relief amid impressive pastel set designs and scenes like the Prince's ball.
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Texas
Germany
Paramount Feature Teasers and Cast Notes Fragment
Fragmentary list of film segments and cast names including Paulette Goddard and Broderick Crawford. Mentions feature timings and pairings with unspecified venues and dates, reflecting an early cinema listing. The readable text references various performers and potential showings without a coherent plot or schedule.
New Mexico CAP Still Hunts for Missing Plane
The Civil Air Patrol pursued a missing Air Force C45 believed to have headed toward Albuquerque after a possible sighting by Harry Knox near Mexican Hat Utah. CAP crews searched Sunday with fifty five aircraft, including Lt. Col. Lorin L. Johncnee and others aboard, as officials theorized the craft might have turned back toward New Mexico.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Civil Air Patrol
Air Force
Utah
Harry Knox
Mexican Hat
CAP
Lorin L. John
Cnee Aie
Joe Base Co
Roller
Sergean
Billy Nash
UN Forces Retreat Amid Chinese Push Across Korea
UN forces began withdrawing as Chinese airpower intensified near Hagaru and Hamhung. About 1,200 wounded troops were flown from Ha garu in two days as eleven unarmed transport planes carried mercy flights through Red fire. MacArthur noted slow Marine retirement toward Hagaru despite fierce opposition while the 17th Regimental Combat Team pulled back from the Manchurian frontier near the Yalu.
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MacArthur
Barr
Yalu River
Hyesanjin
Soviet Siberia
St. Paul
Hamhung
Wonsan
Korea
Huksu
Changjin
Friends Cheer Stricken Lad After Public Plea
Pittsburgh December story recalls 14 year old Michael Calfi burned in an explosion six months ago. He feared friends had forgotten him until telegrams and calls poured in from Celeste Holm and others in Hollywood and Baltimore. Doctors say recovery depends on his will to live.
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Michael Calfi
Michael
West Penn
Celeste Holm
Hollywood
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Sai
Larry
J. B
Porky King
Dallas Pilot Sacrifices Plane To Save Spectators
First Lieutenant James Arthur Bradley of Dallas died when an internal explosion forced his F84 jet to erupt in flames on takeoff from Hensley Air Force Base. Bradley chose to fly over a crowd of about 100 parked cars to spare spectators, crashing beyond the field. He was 32, a World War II veteran with 129 combat missions, married with two children, and part of the 181st Fighter Squadron Texas Air National Guard.
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W National Guard
James Arthur Bradley
Hensley Air Force Base
Bradley
181St
Texas Air National Guard
Deaths and Funerals List
Funeral notices list Mrs. Robert A. Manire Mrs. Evelyn Chambers Durham and others with service times burial sites and officiants across Texas towns including Burnet Taylor Granger and New Braunfels. Read like a memorial column noting church congregations and burial parks.
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Robert A. Manire
Wedd-Corley
John Barclay
Elmer Henson
Houston
Memorial Park
Central Christian Church
Evelyn C. Durham
Evelyn Chambers
Durham
Hylton Manor
Daniel Grieder
Frederick Brooks
Capital Memorial Park
Order of Eastern Star
Morris Mosteller
Jess Allman
E. Mylum
Clarence Rapp
J. D Fisk
L. E. Belding
American wounded recount Chinese troops fueled by dope
Wounded Seventh Division and Marines evacuees describe Chinese soldiers using small boxes of dope to incite aggression. Eyewitness accounts report rapid fire, looting at the Changjin Reservoir frontline, and brutal treatment of wounded by advancing forces.
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Korea
Seventh Division
Changjin Reservoir
Woman Found in Woods Near Lover's Lane in Boyston
The partly undressed body of a woman between 25 and 30 was found in woods near a lover's lane in Boyston Massachusetts. Police said she may have been murdered and appeared to have lain there four to five days with black and blue facial marks.
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Boylston
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