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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1950
Page
7
Texas public safety official N G Woerner forecasts 105 holiday traffic deaths in the 10 day period ending Dec 30, 1950, up from 83 in 1949. He predicts 80 male and 25 female fatalities, with total violent deaths around 211, including homicides and other causes.
Pro Nationalist reports claim Chinese Reds enslave labor to construct airfields deep in interior China as part of preparations for a third World War. Mainland dispatches also report a Nationalist assault 80 miles northwest of Canton with over 100 Reds captured and 500 guerrillas involved.
Mrs. Charles D. B. King wife of Liberia’s ambassador died at the ambassador residence in Washington Saturday night after a long illness. She is survived by her husband and their son Cecil who is with the United Nations.
Senator Millikin said the House approved excess profits tax bill is open to changes and the Senate finance committee may rewrite provisions. Truman urged $4 million extra annually from abnormal profits to aid the defense budget as the measure faces possible adjustments to target utilities growth firms and revenue goals.
Joseph Wright, born 1798 in Nash County North Carolina, practiced medicine briefly in Tennessee then became a surveyor. He helped map the original Forty Acres in Austin Texas later forming the University of Texas grounds. Wright moved to Texas in 1852 settling in Travis County and advanced UT’s early campus boundaries.
Melbourne Australia’s second city operated with a skeleton firefighting force for 15 days in October as 520 firemen joined a citywide strike. Only 76 fire brigade officers were on duty during the stoppage with no serious fires reported.
Hong Kong faces economic paralysis as the United States tightens its embargo on strategic exports, sparking fear the colony could become a white elephant for Britain. The dollar fell sharply and observers warn decisive policy granularity will shape Hong Kong’s fate in the near term.
In Indochina the unchecked Chinese Communist push in Korea alarms Southeast Asia. Western forces are ill prepared to block a large scale invasion as Peiping may turn south toward Indochina, with Viet Minh likely to spearhead moves into Laos and Cambodia after Vietnam.
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