Formosa as a global hot potato in Cold War debate
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst Dewitt Mackenzie surveys Formosa as a flashpoint in U S China tensions. Senators and generals weigh whether U S troops are needed to defend the island, which lies near Luzon and Okinawa and could shift the balance of Pacific defense.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
China
Formosa
Chiang Kai-shek
Smith
America
U. S
Okinawa
China Sea
Philippines
Luzon
Philippine
Manila
Uncle Sam
Cavite
Japan
Britain
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
United States
Extra Gas Tax Increase Set for January 1
North Carolina will raise its gasoline tax by one cent to seven cents per gallon starting January 1. Attorney General Harry McMullan ruled the extra revenue must be placed in a secondary road bond fund to repay the $200 million rural road bonds approved last summer. The tax is expected to bring about $6 million more annually.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Harry McMullan
Revenue Department
Highway Commission
State Treasurer
McMullan
Rex Beach Found Dead in Florida Home
Rex Beach a 72 year old nationally known novelist was found dead from a pistol wound at his Sebring Florida home. County Judge J Howard Livingston and Sheriff Broward Coker ruled the death a suicide after a nurse reported finding the body. Beach had suffered a throat ailment for three years.
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Sebring, Fla
Rex Beach
Here
J. Howard Livingston
Broward Coker
Beach
Break in Coal Talks Leaves Operators Unimpressed
Washington reporters note that John L. Lewis announced some mine owners signed contract terms and will return workers to a five day week. Operators outside the signed group claim output is under 2.5 million tons of the national 550 million, and see little chance of a broad break in the long dispute.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Kentucky
Nationalists ready to go over mountain to Formosa
Premier Yen Hsi-Shan trimmed the government to 107 officials and prepared to move beyond the mountains as Communists approach Chengtu. Chiang Kai-shek remains in Chengtu directing retreat toward Formosa. Reports say Yunnan may abandon Kunming for Tali. Communist forces seize salt fields near Tzuliuching.
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Chengtu
Yen Hsi-Shan
Yen
Chungking
Formosa
Hainan
Sichang
Sikang
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Hong Kong
Yunan
Kunming
Tali
State Sinking Fund Put to Work In North Carolina
North Carolina plans to bid on 1,703,500 dollars of new state bonds while placing about 25,000,000 dollars of existing sinking fund bonds on the market. State Treasurer Brandon Hodges says market conditions allow reinvestment in long term federal securities to earn profits, with an initial potential gain of 200,000 dollars or more.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Brandon Hodges
Hodges
Carnival facility fire wipes out carnival equipment
In Carthage a tobacco warehouse fire destroyed Smothers Brothers Warehouse No 1 and damaged carnival equipment valued at about 300000 dollars. The blaze endangered nearby homes and businesses as fire crews from multiple towns fought the flames. the warehouse stored carnival trucks and midway rides for the winter.
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Carthage
UPI
Smothers Brothers
Ruben and
Hugh Smothers
Reidsville
Sanford
Southern Pines
Pinehart
Aberdeen
George D. Carter
Carnival
Groves Testifies Russia Got Atomic Material During War
The Associated Press reports contrasting wartime claims about atomic material. A 1949 surge in sex crime action dominates other headlines, with state efforts and congressional moves highlighted alongside rising rape statistics and calls to curb crimes against children.
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Groves
Russia
Associated Press
District of Columbia
FBI
New York
Pittsburgh
Newport News
Detroit
Michigan
Los Angeles
Twin Falls
Ida
Huron
Calif
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Chelf
D-Ky
Severe Cold Wave Hits Midwest With Frigid Forecast
The U S Weather Bureau issued its first general cold wave warning of the season for the midwest as polar air moves south from Manitoba. Temperatures range from 15 below in Minnesota to 20 above in southern Ohio with strong winds and snow flurries.
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Chicago
U. S. Weather Bureau
Midwest
Manitoba
Minnesota
Ohio
Bismark
N. D
Gulf
New York State
Louisiana
Pennsylvania
Pearl Harbor memory recalled in eight year reflection
James Marlow recalls a 1941 fishing trip with Cleveland Sessums near New Orleans. He describes the moment the radio announced Pearl Harbor and the Arizona sinking, and notes how colleagues forgot the anniversary while contemplating the day eight years later.
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James Marlow Washington
Cleveland Sessums
Louisiana
New Orleans
Bayou
Perch
Cleveland
Pearl Harbor
Dee
Washington
Dec
Imports Must Balance U S Exports Says NAM Leader
Curtis E Calder chairman of Electric Bond and Share Co urged balancing imports and exports to sustain foreign aid gains and European recovery. He warned without a trade gap solution post 1952 the United States faces continued aid or loss of postwar investments. He spoke at NAM 54th annual congress as Paul G Hoffman discussed economic cooperation.
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New York
United States
National Association of Manufacturers
Curtis E. Calder
Electric Bond and Share Co
Calder
NAM
Congress of American Industry
Paul G. Hoffman
Governor to decide on three death row clemency pleas
Governor Scott may announce late today whether he will intervene on behalf of three men scheduled for execution Friday at Central Prison. Monroe Medlin 23 Audie Lee Brown 29 and Allen T Reid 30 face death for murder and burglary in North Carolina cases.
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Raleigh
Scott
Central Prison
Monroe Medlin
E. O. Anderson
Charlotte Society
Audie Lee Brown
Melvin Cain
Randolph
Allen T. Reid
Wilson
T. C. Johnson
Bids Open Today for $1 Million Mechanical Eng Building
Raleigh December 7 bids were scheduled to be opened at North Carolina State College for a four story L shaped mechanical engineering building. State appropriation totals 929600 with 749600 for construction and 180000 for equipment placed between the diesel engineering and bureau of mines buildings on campus.
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Raleigh
N. C. State College
Diesel Engineering
Bureau of Mines
Showdown On Socialized Medicine To Come In 1950
The American Medical Association warns the fight against federalized compulsory health insurance will reach a decision in 1950. AMA leaders report ground gained against Truman plan opponents while noting the war is not yet won. President-elect Almer Henderson of Louisville spoke at a Clinical session, praising broad public backing but urging caution.
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Washington
American Medical Association
A.M.A
Almer L. Henderson
Louisville
Father Slays Three Children in Virginia Home Tragedy
A Fort Belvoir construction engineer, John Conner, 38, killed his three children Celia 5 Michael 8 and Stephane 11 with a 20 gauge shotgun in their Cameron Valley home near Alexandria Virginia Police said the father surrendered quietly to officers after the shootings Jeannette Conner the mother rushed to neighbors and witnessed the aftermath while Dr John Sims called the deaths instant upon examination
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Alexandria
Fort Belvoir
John Conner
Janet
Cameron Valley
Phillip Mitton
Mittons
John
Mitton
Celia
Michael
Stephane
Conner
John Sims
Roger Stinnett
Soviets Readying Arctic War Effort in Far North
Chicago dispatch cites two Arctic escapees describing Soviet plans including new bases at Vorkoutsk and Tiksi, river routes via the Dvina Ob Yenissei Ingirka and Amur, a Baikal to Bering Sea railway, 300 meteorological stations, and operations from Franz Josef Land to northern Greenland with potential reach toward Northern Canada.
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Henry Wales
Wales
Vorkoutsk Land Tiksi
Potshura
Lena
Dvina
Yenessei
Ingirka
Amur
Lake Baikal
Bering Sea
Alaska
Red Army
Arctic
Nova Zembia
Vorkoutsk
Iron Curtain
France
Franz Josef Land
Dickson Island
Spitzbergen
Groves Links Soviet Espionage to US Atomic Program
Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves testified to the House committee that Russia obtained atomic material from the United States during World War II. He said he knew Russians were engaged in espionage on the project within a month of leading the Manhattan effort in 1942 and that a 1943 shipment was the only one he could identify.
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Washington
Leslie R. Groves
Russia
Groves
House
American Activities Committee
Harry Hopkins
A. A. Wallace
Roosevelt
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Wallace
Hopkins
Walter
D-Pa
Harrison
D-Va
Atomic Energy Commission
Lend-Lease Administration
Acheson Reveals Army Approved 1943 Uranium Shipments
Secretary Acheson said wartime Army licenses allowed uranium compounds to Russia in 1943. He cited two export licenses in March and one in April, plus a November license for 1000 grams of heavy water, all approved by the Manhattan district. He rejected Jordan's claims of improper secret document transfers.
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Acheson
Army
Russia
Board of Economic Warfare
Department
Manhattan
Air Force
George Racey Jordan
State Department
Jordan
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