Dollar crisis priority signals new foreign aid plan
Washington dispatch reports Secretary of State Acheson has top priority to develop a strategy addressing the world dollar shortage as the Marshall Plan nears its end in 1952. Officials say billions for European aid may be needed longer and an administration proposal to Congress could follow. Acheson favors expanding American markets and tariff cuts, though progress is slow.
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Washington
Acheson
Department
United States
Congress
State Department
Europe
Protestant Evangelists Face Stoning in Castel Gandolfo Area
A Texas based Church of Christ evangelist mission reports being stoned from Castel Gandolfo and nearby towns near Rome. The group runs an orphanage in Frascati and seeks visa renewals and written approval to continue. Vatican officials doubt priests incited the violence.
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Rome
Church of List
Castel Gandolfon
Italy
Vatican
Church of Christ Evangelists
Washington
Ed Gosset
D-Tex
State Department
Oman Castel
Frascati
Texas
Churches of Christ
K. D. Pittman
Corpus Christi
Brownfield
Church of Christ
Pittman
Ittman
William A Brady Dies But the Show Goes On
William A Brady aged 86, a leading theater producer and manager, died at his Park Avenue home after a heart ailment. Despite his death his wife Grace George continued in her role in The Velvet Glove at the Booth Theater, keeping the show running.
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New York
William A. Brady
Brady
Park Avenue
Grace George
Booth Theater
Forty seven die in hospital fire nationwide
The Associated Press reports 47 deaths from fires across the United States. Davenport Iowa confirms 37 women killed in the Mercy hospital mental ward fire with debris still being cleared. Other deaths include a Maine farmhouse blaze and incidents in Oklahoma and Montana.
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Associated Press
Sat
Davenport
Iowa
Bangor
Woodward
Okla
Montana
C. H. Wildman
St. Elizabeth's
Mercy Hospital
Lester Schick
Pressure Builds for Action in Coal Dispute
Midwinter weather and shrinking coal stocks intensify calls for full-time soft coal mining. The NLRB chief may seek a court injunction to void the three-day work week, while Taft urges invoking Taft-Hartley and senators pressure the White House amid fuel shortages.
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Washington
Congress
White House
Truman
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relations Board
John L. Lewis
United
Hungary Defies U S with Expulsion of Consulates
Hungary’s communist government denounces the U S order to close its consulates in New York and Cleveland as treaty violation and intolerable interference. The United States cites reprisal for Hungary’s treatment of Robert Vogeler and Israel Jacobson. Consulates were to shut by January 15 midnight. Hungary vows no foreign interference.
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Hungary
New York
Cleveland
U. S. State Department
Robert A. Vogeler
Israel Jacobson
Chicago
United States
Vogeler
International Telephone and Telegraph Corp
Jacobson
Iaint Distribution Committee
Nolice
Bell stolen from Lutheran church bell tower north of Peoria
The Deceiver Lutheran Church four miles north of Peoria reported a theft of its 15 foot high outdoor bell and the wooden support frame. Rev. Theodore Teylor said the bell went missing from the belfry and the wooden framework was taken as well.
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Peoria
the Redeemer Lutheran Church
Theodore Teylor
Peoria County
Congress Debates Big Tax Hike and Spending Cut Plan
Chairman Cannon proposes a 2.5 billion dollar cut in federal outlays and a matching tax increase to balance next year's budget. He and Senator George urge immediate wartime excise cuts and a broader overhaul of the tax system to reach a 300 billion dollar five year production goal.
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Washington
Cannon
D-Mo
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
The
Missourian
Capitol Hill
George
D-Ga
Congress
Senate Finance Committee
CED urges tax cut of over two billion dollars
The Committee for Economic Development proposes a 2.25 billion dollar tax cut this year opposing President Truman’s stance. It calls for 1 billion in excise tax relief and 1 billion in cutting double taxation on corporate earnings along with federal cost cuts to spur higher business activity and balance cash income with debt retirement under varying scenarios.
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CED
Washington
Jan
Committee For Economic Development
Truman
Tional Defense
Sual
Editor predicts Soviet atomic blast as scheduled
London January 7 Kenneth De Courcy magazine editor says an atomic explosion occurred in Soviet Siberia at midnight Soviet time, matching his prediction from last Thursday. He cites an advanced detection method and says the information comes from outside the Soviet Union, with no further details provided.
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London
Kenneth de Courey
Salé
Soviet
Siberia
Siberian
de Courey
Associated Press
Intelligence Digest
de Courcy
Oleo Tax Repeal Battle Moves In Senate
In Washington on January 7 a plan to bundle oleo margarine tax repeal with wartime excise cuts was launched by the daily State Senate. Senator Fulbright argues the tactic aims to derail the repeal while Lucas predicts a failure. showdowns are expected next Friday as Butler proposes amendments to broaden repeal to furs jewelry and other items.
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Washington
Daily State Senate
Fulbright
D-Ark
Lucas
Butler
R-Neb
George
D-Ga
Finance Committee
Congress
Senate Democrats
Daily State
Gillette
Wiley
R-Wis
Senate
Southern regional conference to back Truman program planned
Washington January 7. A southern regional conference to drum up support for President Truman's legislative program will be held in Raleigh North Carolina on January 28, announced by Jonathan Daniels NC national committeeman. The event aims to gauge civil rights stances and unite southern Democrats who split from the 1948 ticket.
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Washington
Truman
Raleigh
N. C
Democratic National Committee
Jonathan Daniels
North Carolina
Congress
Truman- Barkley
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Tennessee
Govs. J. Stom Thurmond
Fielding Wright
Senator Maybank
Commiteeman
Thurmond
J. B. Snider
Hermes Gautier
National Committee
Clarence E. Hood
John Clark
Daniels
Barkley
Bitter Cold Grips Moscow and North Russia
The Soviet Union endures a bitter night with Naryanmar hitting 46 degrees below zero. Moscow faces 23 below with 28 below in the outskirts. Officials forecast a rise of three degrees tomorrow as a relief.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Naryanmar
Archangel
Freezing Weather Eases Midwest Flood Threats
A wave of cold air spread across the mid west easing flood danger in Indiana and Illinois. Temperatures plunged to 25 to 30 below zero in border cities while governors ordered national guard standby. Floods remained in Mississippi and Tennessee as western New York and New England received heavy snow.
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California
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Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Wabash
Terre Haute
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Mississippi
Tennessee
Dixie
Ohio
Missouri
New York
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Memphis
Tenn
Africa development plans expand to tap untapped wealth
Paris reports next week colonial officials from Britain France Belgium and Portugal will meet African representatives to discuss boosting roads railways bridges and power to unlock mineral resources forest products and plantations. ECA allies aid from Marshall Plan funds and plans for oil diamonds manganese and sugar crops are outlined.
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Paris
Africa
Britain
France
Belgium
Portugal
United Nations
U.N
Economic Cooperation Administration
ECA
A. L. Moffat
Nairobi
Kenya
East
Uganda
Rhodesia
Agram
Equatorial Africa
East Africa
West
Elkin Woman Killed in Freak Auto Accident
Ruby Hines Johnson 38 a Shallotte NC teacher died in Conway hospital after a freak car accident while on a Cherry Grove Beach party. The group including Louise Leonard Robert Milligan and W B Mintz were nearby when the car backed and struck Johnson after getting stuck in sand dunes. Her body was sent to Elkin NC.
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Conway
S. C
Ruby Hines Johnson
Miss Johnson
Shallotte
N.C
Cherry Grove Beach
Louise Leonard
Robert Milligan
W. B. Mintz
Swallette
Elkinnn
Farr Jordan
H. M Allen
Milligan
Jordan
Florists Association Plans Barbecue Dinner Meeting
The High Point Thomasville Florists Association will hold a barbecue chicken dinner meeting at the White House on South Main Street in High Point Monday night at 7. Francis P. Nelson, secretary, announced the notice to members.
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Florists
High Point
Taft Sets GOP Policy Course Against National Committee
Senator Taft of Ohio said GOP policy drafting will be done by congressional members with minimal input from the national committee. He opposes a 45-person convention to hammer out principles while noting a draft group of 15 senators 15 House members and 15 committee members may meet within a week or ten days.
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Taft
Ohio
Lucas
D-Ii
Senate
White House
Truman
John R. Steelman
Steelman
Dworshak
R-Ida
Idaho
National Coal Association
Midwestern Coal Re
Washington
GOP
Congress
House
National Committee
Guy G. Gabrielson
A. B. Hermann
Congressional
Ohioan
Sears Catalog Prices Average 7 Per Cent Lower
Chicago Jan 7 Prices in the 1950 Sears spring and summer general catalog average seven percent lower than in 1949. The 1 210 page catalog lists nearly 100 000 items and will mail to more than 7 000 000 customers nationwide. Sixty four percent of items priced lower, 30 percent unchanged, 6 percent higher.
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Chicago
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Sears
T. W. Houser
Goldsboro Enacts Beer and Wine Sale by Public Vote
Goldsboro voters approved beer and wine sales by a little more than two to one. Unofficial results across five precincts show 2,400 for beer and 882 against, 2,292 for wine and 902 against. Wayne County had outlawed beverages previously, while Goldsboro backed continuing legal sales. Fremont plans a beer election January 27.
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Wayne County
Fremont
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