Tax proposals okayed by subcommittees in Raleigh scene
North Carolina House and Senate Finance subcommittees endorsed tax measures to raise about 16.19 million dollars annually including a tobacco products tax of 8.52 million, a 3 percent levy on hotels, 1 percent on vehicle and aircraft sales, and a 3 percent building materials tax, with details on licenses, life insurance taxes, and refunds.
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House
Senate
Justices of the Peace
Domestic Life Insurance Co
Domestic Life and Casualty Co
Eugene Shaw
Greensboro
Nelson Wi
Rowan
ICC
CAB
North Carolina
F. J. Blythe
Charlotte
Communist Party Leader Scales Sentenced in Smith Act Case
Greensboro—Junius I. Scales, 35, chairman of the Communist party in the Carolinas, was sentenced to six years in prison after being convicted under the Smith Act for advocating violent revolution. Judge Albert V. Bryan denied bail pending appeal to the Fourth Circuit. Lightfoot received five years and a $5,000 fine in a related Chicago case. Scales proclaimed innocence and said his beliefs cannot be tried in court.
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Junius I. Scales
Albert V. Bryan
U. S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Scales
Communist Party
Carolinas
Edwin M. Stanley
Claude Ligtfoot
Lightfoot
Chicago
North Carolina
Seales
Charles B. Childs
Collins Reports Viet Nam Crisis Deepens Command View
General J Lawton Collins says the Viet Nam crisis is serious after arriving from Saigon and briefing President Eisenhower. He notes US support for the Diem government and France's push for Diem’s replacement by Bao Dai amid rising violence and a three sects united demand for resignation.
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J. Lawton Collins
Viet Nam
Eisenhower
United States
France
Ngo Dinh Diem
White House
Herbert Hoover Jr
Collins
Saigon
Diem
Cao Dai
Hoa Ao
Bao Dai
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Agreement Reached On Tunisia Peace Plan
Paris reports a six point agreement between France and Tunisian nationalists aims at eventual home rule and possible peace in Tunisia. The deal, reached by Edgar Faure and Tahar Ben Ammar, awaits detail, approval by the Bey and the French Assembly, and faces nationalist and pro colonial opposition. Bourguiba's approval adds weight but unrest and pride in empire challenge progress.
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Paris
France
Edgar Faure
Tahar Ben Ammar
Tunis
Tunisia
Pierre Mendes-France
Morse Attacks Defense of Formosa Islands in Senate
Senator Morse charges the Eisenhower administration with saving face over Formosa by trimming its implied defense of Quemoy and Matsu. He seeks a vote limiting authority to Formosa and the nearby Pescadores, a move likely to fail in committee. Senator Knowland rebukes Dulles over holding Quemoy and Matsu as essential to Formosa defense, arguing any assault on the outer islands is a threat to Formosa.
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Morse
D-Ore
Eisenhower
Formosa Strait
Quemoy
Matsu Islands
Foreign Relations Committee
Formosa
Pescadores
U.S
Sen
Knowland
R-Calif
Dulles
Matsu
Quemoy and
Daughters of the American Revolution
West Big Three, Russia set May 2 Vienna talks
The Western Big Three proposed that their four ambassadors in Vienna meet on May 2 with Russian representatives to complete negotiations for an Austrian independence treaty. US Britain and France accepted Moscow’s proposal for a foreign ministers conference to finish the deadlocked treaty, with ambassadors handling initial work.
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Russia
Vienna
Enakeac
Ee Ee Eoman
United States
Britain
France
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Foreign Office
V. M. Molotov
Julius Raab
Moscow
Raab
Austria
Rab
Industrialist Urges Exporting Atomic Power for Development
John Jay Hopkins of General Dynamics urged making atomic power first available abroad to underdeveloped areas. He argued foreign use accelerates price reductions and industrialization, aiding U.S. crops and goods markets, while noting domestic cost advantages remain with fossil fuels and hydro power. The Nautilus submarine project was cited as a positive example.
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Los Angeles
John Jay Hopkins
Propery
United States
Hopkins
Atom
General Dynamics
Peanut Growers Seek Fast Ruling on Acreage Increase
Assistant Secretary James A. McConnell pledged an immediate decision on a request from Virginia and North Carolina peanut farmers for at least a 10 percent increase in Virginia type peanut acreage. Spokesmen from both states pressed the timing as planting nears, with senators and representatives from North and South Carolina present at the meeting.
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Washington
James A. McConnell
Virginia
North Carolina
McConnell
Sen
Ervin
D-Nc
Rep
Bonner
DNC
Abbitt
D-Va
Scott
Fountain
Suggs
Raleigh
North Carolina Hog and Peanut Growers Assn
Siamese Twins Separated By Operation
CHICAGO The head joined Andrews Siamese twin girls Deborah Marie and Christine Mary were separated by a 14-doctor team at Mercy Hospital in about 4 hours The surgeons described the operation as promising with both girls’ condition listed as good early today They had separate sagittal sinuses suggesting a smoother separation than earlier cases and the team expressed guarded optimism for their survival
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Chicago
Andrews
Mercy Hospital
Harold Voris
Brodie
Rodney Brodie
Roger
Unike
Deborah Marie
Christine Mary
Gavin Proposes Reactivation Of Town Of Archdale
Rep Ed Gavin explains Archdale in Randolph County would be reactivated to sign a consent for forming a sanitary district. The 1873 town would gain a mayor and commissioners via House Bill 1066, which the House Counties Cities and Towns Committee quickly approved.
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Raleigh
Archdale
Randolph County
Ed Gavin
Randolph
House
Gavin
Serenity Returns To Strike at Sperry Plant
Sperry Gyroscope Co. plant at Lake Success resumes mass picketing with nonstriking workers staying home after violence over wage dispute. CIO IVE demands 18 cents an hour raise, average $2, while a court injunction hearing on mass picketing proceeds. Other Nassau County plants also idle. 16,000 employees affected.
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New York
Supreme Court
Sperry
CIO International Union of Electrical Workers
Lake Success
Mineola
Lake Ronkona
Long Island
Sperry Gates
Nassau County
Press Handling Of Integration News Attacked
Former editor Charles A. McKnight urged more balanced coverage of school desegregation. speaking at the ASNE meeting he blamed press distortion and called for better backgrounding by wire services to show quiet progress and reduce fear and turmoil.
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Washington
Charles A. McKnight
American Society of Newspaper Editors
ASNE
McKnight
Charlotte, N.C
Southern Education
Nashville
Enn
Virginius Dabney
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Supreme Court
Ford Foundation
South
Asia Afro Conference Faces Deadlock Over Communist Colonialism
In Bandung Indonesia a nine member subcommittee failed to resolve a dispute over condemning subversion as colonialism. Delegates say Iran led a bloc seeking a strong condemnation while Chou En Lai and India resisted any form of union attack during a bitter two hour session.
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Bandung
Indonesia
Chou Enlai
Iran
Chouly
India
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