Snyder urges full four billion excess profits tax
Washington reports Secretary of the Treasury Snyder calls for Congress to enact the administration's full four billion dollar excess profits tax and to prepare for a larger program next year amid rising defense costs and uncertain fiscal outlook. He cites Korea and global events as justification. He projects corporate profits around thirty seven billion this year with four billion extractable for the treasury.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Congress
Korea
Uest
House
Treas
Treasury
Nation battered by bad weather across states
The Associated Press reports floods heavy snow and gales hit the east and western states. Five thousand people were homeless as new snow fell in Virginia Maryland West Virginia and New York. The Ohio River rose with rains and thaw and another storm was forecast for the Pacific coast.
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Ramage
California
Nevada
Ohio
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains
New York
Ohio River
Upper
Ohio Valley
West
Pacific
Blackout Ordered on Draft Induction Figures in NYC
New York City selective service director Col. Candler Cobb said the army would blackout all further figures on inductions and draft examinations for national security. The blackout, effective immediately, came on written orders from national selective Service headquarters in Washington and applies to figures only.
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New York
Col
Candler Cobb
New York City
Selective Service
Army
General Wage Price Controls Foreseen To Curb Inflation
Secretary Snyder predicted general wage price controls may be needed to avoid inflation. Alan Valentine declined to set timing while senators pressed for details as Rent Control extensions move in Congress. Valentine urged early stabilization and balance between prices and wages.
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Washington
Dec
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
Alan Valentine
Federal
Valentine
Senate
House
Truman
Senate Finance Committee
Millikin
R-Cole
Pares
Senate Banking Committee
Congress
Margaret Truman Denies Engagement Rumors
Washington reports Margaret Truman, daughter of the president, denies engagement rumors with Marvin Braverman. At a news conference she calls Braverman charming but says she has never been and does not expect to be engaged. She arrived in the capital for a concert appearance tomorrow night.
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Washington
Margaret Truman
Marvin Braverman
U S Newsman Captured by Chinese Reds
Tokyo reports pulitzer prize winning Associated Press photographer Frank Noel fifty five? 45 or 46 captured by Chinese in northeast Korea as he volunteered to guide a jeep along a road blocked by a U S marine convoy. Capt. Michael Gapraro says Noel was dragged away and a lens from his camera was later recovered by a marine who escaped.
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Tokyo
Frank Noel
Associated Press
Korea
Noel
Koto
Changjin
U. S
Michael Gapraro
Marine Public Information
San Francisco
First Marine Division
Bus Crash injures dozens near Tacoma County line
A Greyhound bus overturned at the King Pierce county line northeast of Tacoma. Unknown number injured with three ambulance loads taken to local hospitals and 15 to 20 others at Pierce County Hospital. Officials suspect collision with another automobile preceding the crash. No fatalities reported.
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Tacoma
Wash
Washington State Patrol
Greyhound
King-Pierce County
Starf
Pierce County Hospital
Larry Harper
Tacoma News Tribune
Indictment of Five Over Communist Suspicions at UC Lab
Washington reports three atom experts Giovanni Lomanitz Irving Fox and David Bohm and two others Steve Nelson and Marcel Scherer charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions before the House Un American Activities Committee. The Berkeley lab case adds to 24 similar indictments amid a push against Communist influence. penalties upon conviction include up to one year in jail and a thousand dollar fine per count.
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Washington
University of California
Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz
Irving Davis Fox
David Joseph Bohm
Steve Nelson
House un-American Activities Committee
Western
Pennsylvania
Marcel Scherer
Nelson
Berkeley
Calif
UN- American Activities Committee
Navy Reservists Will Be Called to Active Duty This Spring
The navy announced 15,000 trained naval reserve enlisted men will be recalled for active duty in April May and June. About half will be fire seamen and seamen apprentices with six months prior seamen hospitalmen and steward's experience. The rest are reservists with ratings in 34 specialties and will receive four months notice when possible.
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Washington
Navy
Naval Reserve
Mavy
United Nations Urged to Judge China Korea Action
Western powers and six U N Security Council members urge the United Nations General Assembly to sit in judgment on Red China’s Korea intervention. A memorandum will outline the request after Washington gives instructions. Russia vetoed a prior Security Council resolution.
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New York
Security Council
United Nations General Assembly
China
Korea
Trygve Lie
Britain
France
United States
Norway
Cuba
Ecuador
Warren Austin
U. S
Washington
Truman
Attlee
Austin
Assembly
Russia
Red
Rum Runner Dies In Auto Crash Near Broad Ford Va
Charles J. McKinney, 23, of Squire in McDowell county, died when his car left Route 42 two miles east of Broad Ford Virginia and plunged into the north fork of Holston river in Smyth county. Sheriff says 100 gallons of untaxed liquor were found in the car, which bore Virginia license tags issued to a War resident, suggesting liquor traffic patterns from North Carolina. Coroner cites broken neck but death listed as drowning.
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Charles J. McKinney
Squire
McDowell County
Broadford
Holston River
Smyth County
Tazewell
R. B. Thompson
McKinney
Virginia
Thompson
North Carolina
R. D. Campbell
Truman Attlee Emergency Talks Resume Today
Washington reports President Truman and British Prime Minister Attlee held an emergency briefing at the White House lasting 1 hour 35 minutes. They plan to resume discussions aboard the Williamsburg after a 1 pm lunch, aiming to reach a mutual understanding of the worldwide crisis and Korea developments.
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India
Sir Benegal N. Rau
Wu Hsiu-Chuan
Lie
Rau
Gladwyn Jebb
Britain
Israel
Moshe Sharett
Pakistan
Mohammed Zafrullah Khan
Washington
Truman
Attlee
White House
Far East
Williamsburg
London
Mr. Truman
Allies Quit Pyongyang as Red Army Threatens Seoul Perimeter
Allied columns withdrew from Pyongyang as Chinese Red Army spearheads threatened to encircle the capital. The British 29th brigade covered the pullback, airfields were abandoned, and orders called for possible stand or retreat as enemy forces pressed toward Seoul and Inchon. In the northeast, Maj. Gen. Almonti’s Tenth Corps faced heavy fighting across 23,000 square miles in sub zero conditions with U.S. divisions and South Koreans in tight contact near Changi reservoir and Hagaru.
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U. N
Pyongyang
Kangdong
Wongan
Changjin Reservoir
Hamhun
Hungnam
Yalu River
Tokyo
Taedong
United Nations
Eighth Army
Seoul
Republic of Korea
Inchon
Korea
Walker
Edward M. Almonti
Tenth Corps
U.S
Changi
Hagaru
U. S. First Marine Division
Seventh Infantry Division
Koto
Hamhung
Congress demands swift action on Red China and ouster of Acheson
Lawmakers press for hard line in Korea crisis. Senator Stennis urges all out war or evacuation, while Knowland calls for MacArthur authority and expulsion of Soviet Russia from the U N. Kem and Maloney demand Acheson resign. Eastland and Knowland push a naval blockade of Red China.
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Washington
Congress
China
Truman
State Acheson
Knowland
Korea
Stennis
Hoey
D-Nc
United States
Kem
R-Mo
Maclone
R-Nev
Senate
Acheson
Gen. MacArthur
Rep. Jensen
Iowa
House
White House
Jensen
Eastland
D-Miss
Red China Coast
Hospital Official To Take Stand Today
Huntington West Virginia December 4 Mrs Virginia Comstock superintendent of Barboursville State Hospital on trial for involuntary manslaughter will testify tomorrow The defendant a registered nurse is charged in the death of Pauline Cook age 35 a patient at the hospital last June A former state ward and cousin of the victim Dr Charles A Zeller superintendent of Weston State hospital and 13 character witnesses testified on the fifth day of the trial
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Huntington
W. Va
Virginia Comstock
Barboursville State Hospital
Comstock
Pauline Cook
Charles A. Zeller
Weston State Hospital
$3 Billion Bomb Shelter Plan Placed Before Congress
Washington dispatch reports the administration unveiled a $3.1 billion civil defense program to Congress for action. It would fund communal bomb shelters, heavy emergency equipment, local personnel, regional stockpiles, and centralized control centers with federal cost sharing and state local funding.
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Administration
Congress
Washington
James J. Wadsworth
Truman
Civil Defense Administration
Wadsworth
Sen
U. S
Dis membered body found in lockers at Brooklyn station
Police discovered a nude female body cut into parts inside two suitcases in a public locker room at a Long Island railroad station in Brooklyn. Baggage man Raymond Smith opened locker 216 and found the head torso and two arms. locker 220 held the pelvis and legs. Authorities described the dismemberment as carefully executed.
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New York
Long Island
Brooklyn
Raymond B. Smith
Smith
Manuel E. Marten
Kings County
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