Communism Yet on Trial In Far East
AP analyst DeWitt Mackenzie notes Britain and others recognizing Peiping's communist government may enable further recognitions and pressure neighboring Asiatic states to join communism. He argues most Chinese peasants are neither communist nor nationalist, but the regime rules the country, with Moscow backing Mao Tse-tung and about a billion people under red governance.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Britain
China
Far East
Red China
British Commonwealth
England
Ernest Bevin
Colombo
Ceylon
Peiping
Moscow
Mao Tze- Tung
More Rain In Flood Areas Across California
Alaskan-born storm sweeps through the Siskiyou mountains bringing rain snow and high winds to the coast. Highway 99 closes near Dunsmuir and Mt Shasta as a bus struggles through snowbound routes. Donner Pass sees 30 to 40 mph snow slashes while a moderate gale sways trees. Southern California braces for more rain while cold snap ends. Ice coats Los Angeles county roads.
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Associated Press
Siskiyou Mountains
California
Highway 99
Dunsmuir
Mt. Shasta
Weed
Nevada
Donner Pass
Sierras
Los Angeles
Floods and cold snap strain Indiana Illinois area
In Ili nois and Indiana heavy rains worsened flooding as Army engineers and volunteers sandbagged weak levees along the Wabash Embarrass and Little Wabash rivers. Strong winds created sea like waves in lowlands while a cold front trimmed temperatures across Montana the Dakotas Minnesota Wisconsin and nearby states.
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Ilinois
Indiana
Oe Bureau
Vincennes
Ind
Wabash
Montana
Dakotas
Minnesota
Willmar
Minn
Wisconsin
Iowa
Illinois
Mason City
Pennsylvania
North Atlantic Coast
Arkansas
Kentucky
South Atlantic
Rocky Mountain
Washington
Oregon
California
Indiana-Illinois
Embarrass
Big Fondly
Moves Shaping To Handle Miner Boss
Congress debates two measures to curb John L. Lewis with new legal tools. One resolution asks President Truman to use emergency powers to end the three day coal mining week. The other proposes applying antitrust laws to labor unions. Lewis seeks a five day week and higher wages while operators resist.
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Washington
Jan
Congress
John L. Lewis
Ferguson R-eich
Truman
Robertson
D-Va
Senate Banking Committee
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Miners’ Welfare Fund
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relations Board
Maurice Nee to lead National Retail Furniture Association
Maurice Nee 34 of Washington D C was elected president of the National Retail Furniture Association by the board during the midwinter home furnishings show in Chicago. Nee heads the Retail Advisory Committee of the Commerce Department and leads the P. J. Nee Company. The show opened with record first day registrations at the American Furniture Mart and Merchandise Mart and reports brisk buying in chrome dinettes and TV and appliance floors amid price stability with some cost hikes for lumber steel and screws.
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Chicago
Maurice Nee
Washington, D. C
National Retail Furniture Association
Nee
P. J. Nee Company
Washington
Department of Commerce
American Furniture Mart
Merchandise Mart
Mercy Hospital Fire Toll Rises to Forty One in Iowa
Davenport Iowa January 10 The Mercy hospital mental ward fire death toll rose to 41 with Ruth Finnerty of Ottumwa dying from injuries after rescue efforts. She was the second of 24 rescued to die as investigators said survivors will not be questioned during the ongoing probe.
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Davenport
Mercy Hospital
Ruth Finnerty
Ottumwa
Britons to Vote Feb 23 in National Election
Britain to hold national elections February 23 announced by Prime Minister Attlee after cabinet discussions. The expected clash between Labour and Churchill’s Conservatives has diplomats and ministers awaiting official confirmation as Bevan hinted an announcement later.
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London
Britain
Ministe Attlee
Attlee
Winston Churchill
No. 10
Downing Street
Aneurin Bevan
Herbert Morrison
White Woman Sued Over Alleged Affair With Negro Man
Mrs Olive J Perry sued Ruth Weyand a white government lawyer for 50000 in district court alleging she alienated the affections of Leslie S Perry. The complaint says Weyand and Perry pursued an adulterous relationship from July 1947 to April last and a child named Perry Weyand was born.
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Washington
Ruth Weyand
Olive J. Perry
Miss Weyand
Leslie S. Perry
National Labor Relations Board
Supreme Court
U.S. Destroyers Escort Flying Arrow To Neutral Port
In Mississippi a posse hunted three white men after a massacre in which a Black father, Thomas Harris, alleged his family was killed during an attempted rape of his 14 year old stepdaughter Pearline Thurman. One suspect captured. two others still at large.
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Kosciusko
Miss
Thomas Harris
Mississippi
Rodgers
Attala County
Pearline Thurman
Harris
Whitts
Turner
Whitt
Frankie C. Thurman
Mary Burnside
Ruby Nell Harris
Peatrine
Wake Forest students face expulsion probe in gambling case
Wake Forest college’s student council investigates gambling charges against about 30 students with possible expulsions. The probe ties to the Roy Coble slaying on campus, as SBI searched Hale Hair’s Fayetteville home and police cited a related inquiry into poker winnings and payments.
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Wake Forest
Wake Forest College
SBI
Roy Coble
Coble
Raymond Fair
Hair
Fayetteville
Walter Anderson
Hale
Anderson
Clamor in Congress Grows for Economy in Government
Washington leaders debate Truman’s 42.6 billion budget as senators and representatives push for spending cuts. Some expect a deficit around 5.133 billion with tax tweaks unlikely to pass. Postal rate hikes loom but face congressional hurdles as the fiscal year begins.
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Congress
Washington
Jan
Truman
House
Aiken
R-Vi
Senate
State May Have To Borrow Again For General Fund
North Carolina may need to borrow up to five million more to maintain its general fund. After a five million dollar short term issue, the fund moved from a deficit of 375,247.14 to a small surplus around six hundred thousand, with auditors noting the possibility of a further bank loan if funds dip again. The initial five million carried interest at half a percent.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Council of State
Brandon Hodges
Henry Bridges
Bridges
Hydrogen bomb development costs amid wartime budget debates
Washington reports weigh the cost of a hydrogen bomb at about two billion dollars and note President Truman’s budget message focuses on atomic energy for defense and peacetime uses. Speculation centers on whether to pursue a superbomb before Lilienthal’s February 15 departure as AEC chair.
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Washington
Truman
Atomic Energy Commission
U. S
AEC
United States
David Lilienthal
President's Budget Clarity Questioned By Marlow
James Marlow reports the president’s budget message and budget for 1951 are delivered to Congress. He notes estimated government payroll costs total 42.4 billion with 3.5 million people, including 1.507 million in the armed forces and 1.96 million civilians, drawing pay next year.
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James Marlow
Washington
Congress
Defense Department
Army
Budget Bureau
House
Senate
Library of Congress
Capitol Architect
U. S
Legislative Branch
Witness Ross Relieved Of Masquerade In Perjury Trial
In San Francisco on January 10 1947 ex Communist editor Lawrence Seton Ross admitted his name was Rosenstein not Ross and he was born in West Poland not Kentucky his schooling occurred in New York City. He testified Bridges knew him in the 1930s as a fellow Communist and Bridges is charged with perjury for denying Communist ties at a 1945 naturalization hearing. Two CIO Longshoremen officers Schmidt and Robertson face conspiracy charges linked to the case.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Bridges
Lawrence Seton Ross
Ross
Kentucky
Rosenstein
West Poland
New York
Poland
New York City
Joss
Cotton Trade Journal
Memphis, Tenn
Midthirties
CIO Longshoremen’s Union
Henry Schmidt
J. K K. Robertson
Freighter Flying Arrow Battered By Chinese Gunboat
Two U S destroyers prepared to escort the crippled Flying Arrow to a nearby port for repairs after being shelled by a nationalist gunboat. Captain David Jones of Chicago said the ship, with 43 crew and 12 passengers, is unseaworthy. The incident increases tension as nationalist forces blockade Communist held Shanghai ports.
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Flying Arrow
Shanghai
China
David Jones
Chicago
Hong Kong
Wayne Richardson
Associated Press Bureau
United States
Jones
Associated Press
U. S
Stickell
Bausell
Orient
Taipei
Formosa
Brooklyn Heights
Tanks and armored cars shipped to Chinese government at Formosa
Ninety carloads of tanks and armored cars bound for the Chinese government at Formosa were loaded aboard the Turkish freighter Mardin in Philadelphia. Reading Lines moved the equipment from an Ohio storage site to Port Richmond on the Delaware River, with departure planned next week. The shipment remains officially restricted and not identified by individual names.
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Philadelphia
Formosa
Reading Company
Reading Lines
Ohio
Delas Ware River
Port Richmond
S. S. Mardin
Marta T. A. S
Istanbul
Turkey
B. H. Sobelman and Co., Inc
Foreign Freight Department
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Douglas McArthur
Japan
U. S
Stock Market On Defensive Today
An early wave of profit taking pushed the market into a defensive stance. Packard opened unchanged at 41-2 after a 13,300 share block, then inched up 1-8. Major gainers included Chrysler VA Rubber Columbia Gas Home Stake Mining GE American Woolen NY Central and Paramount, while U Steel Bethlehem Steel Goodrich Montgomery Ward JI Case Douglas Aircraft Zenith Radio American Smelting Am Cyanamid Dow Chemical Southern Railway C&O Standard Oil NJ Gulf Oil and U.S. Gypsum lagged.
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New York
Packard
Chrysler
Rubber
Columbia Gas
Homestake Mining
General Electric
American Woolen
N. Y. Central
Paramount
U. §. Steel
Bethlehem Steel
Goodrich
Montgomery Ward
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U.S
Henry Rogers
Malcom Whitt
Leon Turner
Wendell Whitt
Malcolm
Marlow
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